Marine Ich

[softsak1]

I have a 125 gallon reef setup, about 6 weeks old, have 125 pounds of tunga rock cured, about 17 fish, 2 shrimps, 18 assorted snails and 10 or so different crabs, question being my Blu Hippo has what appears to be marine Ich, i cannot catch him at all, tank is to big, cant use copper based treatment because of the rock and invertibrates. So i have dropped the salinity to 1.018 and am giving vitamic c daily, soaking food with garlic extract and using this reef safe Kick Ich treatment solution. Its only been about 4 days since the treatments started but the hippo is worse then ever, and the ich has spread to my tomato fish, coral beuty, and seems like might be hitting my purple suito now! I am not sure what to do now, I am new at this , am thinking about getting a uv sterilizer to use full time till the ich has finally died off without killing the fish! I understand that the UVS, will kill the good algae but will kill the bad ich pathogens in the water also, perhaps keeping it from spreading! once under control I could cut back the UVS to maybe 1 day a week or so? Sorry for the long post, need help here people. Thanks

 

[slothy]

pull the fish outa there (hehe i know its gonan suck) .... 1 .018 isnt low enough...
put them in a Quarantine tank
do a search for hypo treatmeant

 

[korgull]

i'm in the same boat as you. i have a blue hippo tang with ich, and it has spread to my dottyback and angel, although they seem to fight it off pretty good. i use garlic in the flake food and frozen shrimp and i even put a capful in the wet/dry sump once a week too, that seems to work pretty good, as i notice every time i do that, the ich fall off or go away for a while. then i bought the same stuff, Kick Ich, it didnt do much of anything, it got worse actually. i just put a cleaner wrasse in there so we'll see what happens. im just waiting to get a small tank so i can do the hyposalinity, but i cant get my hands on a good hydrometer to monitor the salinity, so i'm hopin the combination of the wrasse, garlic, and kick ich will hold it at bay til i get the hospital tank going.