120 Crash Reef Safe Ich Treatment Not So Sps Safe After All

[Chaz]

Hippo decided to have ich. Figured give this Reef Safe Ich-x a try
Not such a good Idea...... all sps gone with in hours, rest of the tank to be surveyed after lights come on.
Looks like 100% water change for today.
reactors running carbon and skimmer wide open.

 

[Nonuser]

Hoping for the best for you. Sorry to hear

 

[Luke.]

Ouch back in the day I used
MICROBE-LIFT / Herbtana (Reef)
tried it out before had no sps but aquariam by design used it a few times on their big mixed reef dpt I think it was around 300 gallons and I don't think they had an issue all natural and it did clear up ich ! But that sucks all the best !

 

[heath]

OMG, that is horrible... hopefully you don't lose any more...

 

[Bigfish]

Unfortunately there are no reef safe ich treatments that actually work. Only thing you can do is remove all fish and treat them while letting the tank sit fallow for 10 weeks, or just keep your tank and fish healthy and stress free and the fishes immune system should be able to keep the parasite at bay.

 

[chrisstevens]

NOOOOOO! Sorry to hear about your tank, hopefully some of you coral make it through.

I just ride out the ich and feed garlic pellets, and hope for the best, you'll lose some but others will survive. Its the least stressful method.

 

[sunnykita]

awhhh man ! that sucks ! so sorry for your losses !

 

[Chaz]

This was just more of a preemptive measure for the rest of the fish (Hippo Tang only one to show signs of ich)
1/2 the recommended dosage, instead of tear down of full reef and corals to try and catch 1 fish, while stressing out everything else.
Removal and treatment is always the best, just not always the easiest.
Looks like mostly sps effected. not as bad as 1st thought. (better then a total wipe out) Everything else just really really pissed off.
Back to making water..... its gunna be a wet day.
and Thankyou for replies

 

[chrisstevens]

Can always get JT custom acrylics to make you a fish trap for the future, they work awesome.

 

[Chaz]

Fish trap is in the very near future

 

[Kevin Tran]

Hippo need to have enough Seaweed in their diet, if not = ich. Well at least that my experience with my yellow belly

 

[Kman]

That totally sucks. I don't trust medications that say reef friendly so don't use any in my reef tanks. It is safer that way as you really don't know what damage it will do to your food web even if you visually don't see any damage. To me it is not worth impacting my tank to save the fish. Not saying the fish is not worth it but it is not worth causing harm to my tank is all.

 

[yveterinarian]

So sorry to hear of your losses. I hope some of them recover.

 

[scubasteve]

i always qt so have never had anything other than a little stress ich in the first week or two but they always seem to clear up with garlic guard and nori. if something dies in my tank it becomes snail food and gone in hours