Ich issues

hospital tank is pretty much your best recourse. Honestly anything that is going to combat things like Ich and work is probably not going to be reef safe.

 

ich can lay dormant in your tank.

adding meds to a DT is not usually recommended. I would hospitalize/qt your fish and treat them.

 

I tried ick attack it works slow but it seemed to work also I soak the food in it ,but it doesn't kill the ick from what I understand it helps boost the immune system to resist it

 

I have had my best luck with a UV sterilizer. couple of my fish had it and put that in and now seems to be good to go.

 

Long and the short of it is that if you want to get rid of ich, you have to QT your fish for six weeks and let your tank run for that entire time with no fish. The ich will die without fish.f

While you have your fish in QT treat them with a copper treatment. DON'T TREAT YOUR CORAL WITH COPPER TREATMENT.

Reef safe ich medication does not work. That is a scam. Garlic boosts the immune system, but does not treat ich.


OK all that being said....there is something to be said for just living with ich. For example I had a powder blue tang that died of ich recently. My powder brown had it, so did a couple other fish. I considered QT the fish and let the DT lay fallow, but in time most of the fish stopped showing any signs of ich, except for the powder brown, which continued to show the ich in various stages of life.

So instead of QT all my fish I just caught the powder brown and treated him. He is now fine and showing no signs. I can live with knowing the ich is still in my tank. If it comes back in force, which it easily could, I will treat more aggressively, but for now I am just going to lay low and see what happens.

 

I've had luck with ich x does seem to work slower but does work. A uv sterlizer will help. Most important thing to remember is what ever passes through it dies. No medicine is can be used while running uv.

 

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Hey

Some pretty good advice mentioned above.

More then likely, your fish have had ich for a very long time. If they were happy and healthy, their natural immune system has probably kept in check for the most part. Stress can temporarily weaken your fish giving ich the chance to get the upper hand. Something simple as changing your lights could have stressed them out.

Tangs, Angels, and Puffers are the 3 types of fish that is most succeptible to ich outbreaks. Other fish may have it or carry it, but for some reason their bodies fight it off much better.

Regular feeding quality food soaked in a garlic mixture helps boost their immune system keeping the ich in check. A UV sterilzer will help kill ich in the water column, but if you dont have in plumbed correctly, you might as well not have one. The water has to be prefiltered and the bulb needs to be changed regularly.

The only way to 100% erradicate it from your tank is to let the tank have absolutly no fish in it for 6 weeks. Inverts are fine, just no fish. Then, the fish in your tank need to be treated for ich, even if they appear completely healthy in case they are a carrier.

Remember, anything you put in your tank can carry ich including live rock, coral, snails, live sand, and so forth.

Good luck

 

Hyposalinity is much safer than copper based treatments, IMO. Especially if you don't have time to test copper levels everyday to keep it at 2ppm, or w/e it's supposed to be at.
With hypo, slowly take your water from its regular salinity down to 1.008 - 1.011 for 6-8 weeks, and slowly raise it back up to 1.024-26 over the course of a week. I had to do this to my fish when they had an ich outbreak, or I should say, just my blue hippo did. The dt tank laid fish less for that period to kill off the cycle..Haven't seen it back since 

 

Uv sterilizer is worthless when it comes to ich, because not all of the water is treated by the uv, therefor not all of the ich comes in contact with the light.
If it gives you a piece of mind, thn so be it. But it's definitely not a solution

 

the same thing could then be said about reactors, carbon, gfo, calcium etc. are those B.S. too?
obviously the water isnt going to be 100%$ treated at any given time. But it will eventually have "diluted" if not treated, the entire volume of water in your system based on your turn over rates etc etc. 
QT your fish with Hypo salinity and leave your tank fish free for 6+ weeks. 

 

and yes, and no im sure you fish are stressed from the massive increase of light. it would be wise to start off lower then you think it needs and slowly upping the intensity 5-10% every week, or lowering the unit an inch every week until you reach desired spot.  
any sudden change to your system can make problems. 
remember, only bad things happen fast in this hobby

 

No because those actually work.... Lol

 

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