Polyp Lab Medic actually work?

[Projects with Sam]

I hate to break it to you, but it'll come back next month/cycle.

What you are seeing is just the normal life cycle of ich. The white dots on your fish are not the actual parasite, it's the fishes immune system repairing the hole the parasite left when it burst out from under the skin, dropping eggs all over your tank for the next generation.

Fish heal really quick, so you see the white dots one day, and then they disappear the next day giving the illusion that the dots "fell off". This gives people the false illusion that whatever they did "worked" and that is how companies like this stay in business despite putting out a product that doesn't fix the problem.

I've wasted money on that stuff as well is how I learned.

The entire life cycle of ich can take up to 72 days depending on the specific species. So you're going to think everything is good for a month or so, and then one day you're going to see dots on your fish again.

Thanks, Actually its been over a quarter since I used it last.

 

[Ben Pedersen]

I recently purchased an achilles tang. Before purchasing I verified there were no spots or blemishes on the fish, it was perfect. A day after putting in my tank, it got something that looked like iche.. but also something else. It had pilus hair all over it's body.

My tank is full of SPS and other fish so I started treating with Polylab Medic. After 3 days the fish was completely clear. After another 7 days the spots were back but the pilus hair never returned. Even after 20 days of treatment with Medic, the spots were still there. Some days I would add a little more Medic then instructed and the spots would disappear for a day or 2 but always came back. I also was using a 25 watt UV sterilizer per the Medic instructions.

Finally on day 34 I treated with both Rally Pro and Medic for 3 days. After that the spots wet away and didn't return. Durring the whole time the tang was active and ate normally.

I don't know what the fish had, but Medic seemed to help and combining with Rally Pro did the trick. None of my other fish showed any symptoms.

I had no visible negative impact on my corals. I did notice that some of my sand bed started turning brown (just a few patches) like what happens when you put new sand in an existing system... So I added some bottled bacteria. Interestingly the spots are still brown...

I think both Medic and Rally Pro are good options for treating fish in SPS and LPS mixed reef systems. My tank below.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Its Peroxide salts but I too had no choice but to use along with rally Pro and lost a Chevron buut saved 23 other tangs and the achilles was also my reason for velvet

 

[ninjamyst]

Soooo multiple people did full quarantine and ran fallow but still got ich after introducing fish to display. I guess ich management is the answer.

 

[blaxsun]

Soooo multiple people did full quarantine and ran fallow but still got ich after introducing fish to display. I guess ich management is the answer.

Velvet can sometimes elude QT, but yes - for the past year since an outbreak of velvet (where Polyp Lab medic helped save 2/3s of my fish and QT didn't) I've just run an oversized UV and focused on keeping the fish happy, healthy, stress-free and well-fed.

 

[polyppal]

 

[Vyper]

update. Still ich free knock on wood. I even shut my uv’s off for a week when I added some live sand from aqua biomics in an attempt to help stop all this red and brown crap I have been fighting for a year. The bacteria diversity seems to be helping. After about 6 weeks my corals are springing to life and all the bad stuff is all but gone. I was worried ich would come back in force but never saw a spot. Thankfully!

 

[Projects with Sam]

I've been running without carbon, gfo, or water changes for the better part of 5 months. during which time I ran Medic heavy three times; only started seeing coral loss a few weeks ago. I'm not proud of myself, just didnt know better and figure I may as well share my extreme case.