Bad News!! ICK!

Np man glad to help ya out! Save that beautiful fish!

 

GOOD NEWS!! The majestic has colored up today, and has lost around 90% of the spots!! Its out swimming, and eating. Now to keep that evil parisite at bay!! I think the SG change was too much for the velvet. Wish me luck

 

I am dealing with ich as well right now. I read an article about using garlic to treat ich. But none of the LFS here had it other then formula 2 food with garlic added. F&S sells garlic xtreme, but I didnt wanna wait on ordering it. So I came up with the idea of buying concentrated garlic extract. I dosed 1 tsp per 25g of water. Which is similar to other methods I read about it. Its a lot simpliar then hyposalinity. I talked to a marine biologist buddy of mine, he said to do the hyposalinity method and drop the salinity down to 1.015 raise the temp up slowly to like 82-83 degrees to speed up the germination period of the parasite cysts. The quicker they go thu the protozoan stage, the quicker you tank gets over it. That is not what I did. I did the garlic dosing, and feeding formula 2 with garlic added and all of the fish have no visible ich anymore. But I am going to continue dosing for another week or so, just to be safe.

Here is a link about hyposalinity/garlic and other treatments for ich.
Aquarium Fish Diseases Ick - Saltwater Ich and Garlic[

 

However, I have a QT setup just in case, lol.

oh and I picked up the garlic extract at the grocery store for like $2, much cheaper then treatments, lol and I kept my filters running the whole time. My fish room smells like garlic, but other then that, its all good, lol.

 

anyne got any pictures of fish with ICK?

 

lol Ive never thought to take any pics