Ick!

[reefperson]

My coral beauty has ick I got him 2 days ago and I have a reeftank today I am getting a uv sterelizer and ick treatment will the uv sterelizer do the trick alone or it needs the ick treatment

 

[beth]

UV will not kill of an existing infection.
Do you have a quarantine tank?
The problem is that now you have put the infected fish in your reef, all you fish have been exposed to the parasite.

 

[reefperson]

Yes he is currently in the quarintine tank and looks all better

 

[reefperson]

How big should a quarintine tank be

 

[beth]

Depending on size of fish in the QT. So you have a UV connected to QT? That's quite an expense for a QT, if so.
So, was the fish in your display and moved him to QT once you discovered the ich?
Need more details about what is going on.

 

[djshabb]

I have used this product very successfully treating my hippo tang. I just soak algae sheets until it is saturated and the tang eats it and ick goes away.