[R-e-D]

ok my yellow tang has ich .. i have never had to treat for this so i know basicily nothing about it .. i dont have a qt set up at this time so i asked my lfs guy what to do .. i explained i have a reef and no qt .. he told me to buy this bottle of Ich*Attack made by Kordon Aquaherbals .. it says its 100% organic and is totaly reef safe .. i want to start treatment tommorow but was wondering if anyof you have heard of it ..

[R-e-D]

here is a link to what it is

Kordon Herbal Ich Attack, 16 oz

[Jeremy0322]

Do you have anything that would be sensitive to a salinity change. The new trend it seems it seems is to do hyposalinity, it will kill the ich and you need no meds.

[R-e-D]

not sure, i have mushrooms,leathers,zoa's, green buttons,torch,frogspawn,h ammer, feather duster plus fish.

[R-e-D]

oh yea a bta and lta

[msbdiving]

Used the stuff when I first started out and it didn't work. Now I would only take the fish (all) out and copper treat the fish in a hospital tank and let the DT go fallow for 4-6 weeks.

[e_baer]

Originally Posted by R-e-D

not sure, i have mushrooms,leathers,zoa's, green buttons,torch,frogspawn,h ammer, feather duster plus fish.

If you have any inverts in the tank you would not want to do hyposalinity!

[dinor2]

I agree with msbdiving. Ich requires fish to host, so, taking the fish out and leaving the inverts by themselves in the dt while qting the fish in a separate tank will eliminate the ich. But it takes anywhere from 4-6 weeks, 6 weeks being the ideal time frame, so I was told....

[e_baer]

saltwater ich - Google Search

[Gohn]

Do you have any cleaner shrimp? I have heard that they will take care of this. When I 1st started my tank about 6 mos ago I suspected ich on a little reef fish which moved over to my cleaner shrimp who picked it over daily and the spots are gone and never returned. This is just anecdotal and not scientific at all. Just my experience + a suggestion seen on other threads off and on. I'm just a shrimplover anyhoo so maybe I'm biased. Good luck on whatever you do to solve your problem. I also know that in fresh H2O that by raising the temp above 80 one may break the ich cycle - not sure about salt ich.

[pogodzib]

The only two PROVEN ways to treat ich are copper and hyposalinity. Neither one can be done in a tank that has corals or inverts. There aren't any reef safe ich treatments that are guaranteed to work. Many of them appear to work because the fish will loose their white spots after a few days, but that is just part of the natural ich cycle. A week later, they usually come back 10-100 fold. Just a few couple weeks ago someone here was talking about some reef safe ich treatment method that worked in his tank. Guess what, now he is treating his fish in a q-tank since the treatment didn't really work and ich is back. Q-tanks are each to setup and can be cheap. All you really need is a 10 gal tank, a cheap HOB power filter, and a heater. A clip on light is a bonus, along with PVC pipe for hiding places.