ick

[julie]

I've got a 200 gallon tank with live rock, live sand, anenomes, and fish. I currently noticed my flame angel, convict goby, and maroon clown all have ick. I have a quarentine tank, but there is no way I would be able to catch these fish and put them into it. What would be some suggestions on treating the ick? I have other fish in the tank, but they show no outward signs, yet!

 

[calvin & hobbes]

garlic and cleaner shrimp. Stay away from the cleaner wrasse fish as they do eat parasites, but annoy more than clean.

 

[beth]

Cleaner wrasses do eat parasites but they should not be purchased by hobbyist because removal of these animals from their native ecosystems poses an extreme detriment to that ecosystem.
It was resently said in this forum that as long as cleaner wrasses are sold, they would be bought...the truth is, as long as hobbyist buy them, they will be sold, so its up to the hobbyist to make that difference.