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zodiac's tang
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ich question
I am pretty familiar with ich and yes it is in my tank. I know the steps I need to take to get it out of my tank, however, I do not have a QT tank and my main tank has l/r and corals. I do put garlic on my fishes food and the ich has stayed away, until recently within about a 1 week time period, I purchased about 60 lbs of l/r and added it to the tank, this occurred in 2 diffferent trips, so the tank changed shape a few times in 1 week, I'm assuming this is what stressed my purple tang out to the point that about a week ago, he had a horrible outbreak of ich. It has not gone away...normally if he has an outbreak it is only 1 or 2 spots. He is still eating fine and acting normal, just has the white spots all over his body. I know one thing I can do is a fresh water dip. Has anyone done this and does it work? I have seen ich meds at the fish store that can be used in a reef tank...has anyone ever used these and do they work? I realize they won't get the ich out of my tank, but for the time being I'm just looking for a solution to get the ich off my fish. Please help. thanks.
I am pretty familiar with ich and yes it is in my tank. I know the steps I need to take to get it out of my tank, however, I do not have a QT tank and my main tank has l/r and corals. I do put garlic on my fishes food and the ich has stayed away, until recently within about a 1 week time period, I purchased about 60 lbs of l/r and added it to the tank, this occurred in 2 diffferent trips, so the tank changed shape a few times in 1 week, I'm assuming this is what stressed my purple tang out to the point that about a week ago, he had a horrible outbreak of ich. It has not gone away...normally if he has an outbreak it is only 1 or 2 spots. He is still eating fine and acting normal, just has the white spots all over his body. I know one thing I can do is a fresh water dip. Has anyone done this and does it work? I have seen ich meds at the fish store that can be used in a reef tank...has anyone ever used these and do they work? I realize they won't get the ich out of my tank, but for the time being I'm just looking for a solution to get the ich off my fish. Please help. thanks.
