Ich need help!

[Acox28]

All of my fish have developed ich. Ive tried soaking food in garlic and feed them high quality foods does not seem to be making a difference. I was curious if there are any good ich medications out there for a reef that people have found to be successful

 

[Big G]

Welcome to R2R! Here's a complete explanation of your choice: ich management or ich eradication by our own Dr. Fish Humblefish. Hope this helps.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-eradication-vs-ich-management.188775/#post-2171424

 

[DLHDesign]

There are no reef-save ich medications, no. If you would like to treat them (and that's a good idea if they are all showing signs), you will want to capture all the fish out of the tank and move them into a QT tank, where you will be able to treat with one of various methods (TTM, copper, or CP being the top three). Meanwhile, your display tank will need to remain fishless (coral only) for a period of at least 76 days in order for the ich outbreak to die out there.

Sorry for your troubles. :-(

 

[JimmyV]

Did you use garlic liquid for aquaria or plain garlic powder mixed with water to soak. It usually takes about a week to clear up, from what I have experienced any way.

 

[Maritimer]

It takes about 3-7 days for the ich trophonts to eat their fill and drop off the fish. If you'd put garlic in the tank and saw the fish clear a week later, you might think that the garlic had done the job ... but it's just a normal part of their life cycle. (They may develop a taste for Italian cuisine...) Meanwhile, the fish, having been exposed to an attack by ich, is working on developing a temporary immunity, which may help to reduce the severity of future infestations.

Garlic is nice, as an appetite stimulant. It seems to work on fish, and I know it works on my family, but it doesn't eradicate the ich parasite.

The advice offered by @Big G and @DLHDesign, however, _will_.

~Bruce

 

[JimmyV]

No I just meant to help clear the fish up of it . Garlic is one of those long debated topics but it cant hurt to try it

 

[4FordFamily]

Garlic is an appetite stimulant, nothing else, as best we know. This is useful though as it gets the fish to consume more calories for the immune system to grow stronger. Unfortunately, no reef-safe remedy exists, and in many cases people are actually dealing with velvet, which is far more deadly. If a fish has noticeably more spots in a 1-4 day window it’s almost certainly not ich, but velvet.