Experimental Ich Treatment... Wish me luck.

RtomKinMad · Jan 21, 2018

Vague Doctor-What state are u in? I’m in Wisconsin. If this works I would be interested in contacting your store.

Vague Doctor · Jan 21, 2018

RtomKinMad said:
Vague Doctor-What state are u in? I’m in Wisconsin. If this works I would be interested in contacting your store.

Virginia.

Paul B · Jan 21, 2018

tkeiffer2 said:
I've never heard of someone being that dead set against a quarantine tank.

You never heard of me but I am dead set against one.

(Hello Bobby

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olecaptainj · Jan 21, 2018

Never used a qt in 11 years in this hobby and never will....

Also there are very very VERY few store(s) in VA that I would even consider has any knowledge or the experience level to make a magic ich potion. fish world or tiki corals at best....

Vague Doctor · Jan 21, 2018

For the last hour, the black bar chromis' have decided to declare war on each other. Everyone's displaying aggressive shimmy movements in a different corner of the tank. Doesn't seem like they are very happy and there's been a quite a few fins nipped. If whatever disease I'm trying to treat doesn't kill them, they'll just kill each other apparently. *facedesk*

All the other fish are fine. (2 clowns and 1 scooter blenny show no signs of infection) No inverts displaying strange behavior, except I did find a very small shield slug in the tank today. Update to come.

recess62 · Jan 21, 2018

Interesting thread. Looking forward to the outcome

cgdcinc · Jan 21, 2018

One never knows when someone will come up with the next big step in the hobby. I hope it’s something that works and we can figure out what it is. That would be great.
Of course most will be skeptical I am always gun shy to add anything new to the tank. Even after QT.

Maacc · Jan 21, 2018

Blue reef chromis are known for knocking each other off until only one remains long term unless kept in a huge system. If it works, maybe send a sample to Randy so he can tell us what is in it. Actually even if it doesn't work, as I am curious.

Don Lidtke · Jan 21, 2018

I will be following along even though I am in the process of setting up quarantine tanks for fish and corals.

I am always interested in learning new stuff. Well, expect for M$ Windows...don't get me started on that...lol!

EmdeReef · Jan 21, 2018

Good luck! Brave of you to put a “magic cocktail” - I personally wouldn’t trust my sister if she wasn’t willing to disclose the ingredients.

As a recovering scientist, I have a question on how you plan to measure effectiveness of this? Assuming your fish do have ich, in the best case scenario, it will complete its cycle (~3-7d) and possibly disappear for some time. Was it from the cocktail or fish’s immunity? Say that you ran another tank but instead of the cocktail you added cayenne pepper and got the same results would it be logical to assume that cayenne pepper kills ich?

At the minimum I would want to understand from the lfs, why is their fish not ich free, it’s a parasite and not airborne (at least somewhat limited).

No offense, and don’t mean to be cynical but just the type of questions you would get if you were trying to run a scientific experiment.

RtomKinMad · Jan 21, 2018

Thanks for keeping everyone updated.

Paul B · Jan 21, 2018

EmdeReef said:
Say that you ran another tank but instead of the cocktail you added cayenne pepper and got the same results would it be logical to assume that cayenne pepper kills ich?

How would you get each ich parasite to eat the cayenne pepper?