lost my battle with ich

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vic2631

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Lost my last fish on Friday to ich thought he would've made it since he was eating well but he died . going to go 8 weeks with no fish in display tank to make sure ich is gone .one last thing thanks to everyone for all there advice.
 
8 weeks is the minimum, but just to be sure you should go for 10-12. It sucks, but it's the best way.


Sorry about the loss. The same thing happened to me and I ran my tank fishless for 3 months just to be sure.
 
Although this is not the best way of treating for ick, it worked for me when my clown fish got ick. I fed heavily with garlic and raised the tank temp to 81 degrees. I believe this irritates the ick in some way and will definitely help rid your tank of ick after the fallow period.
 
Darienreefs7 said:
Although this is not the best way of treating for ick, it worked for me when my clown fish got ick. I fed heavily with garlic and raised the tank temp to 81 degrees. I believe this irritates the ick in some way and will definitely help rid your tank of ick after the fallow period.
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You fed with garlic after moving fish to QT? Otherwise, how did you go fallow? So just garlic in the QT and no other treatment (note: I don't consider garlic a treatment, just an appetite inducer).
 
Sawdonkey said:
You fed with garlic after moving fish to QT? Otherwise, how did you go fallow? So just garlic in the QT and no other treatment (note: I don't consider garlic a treatment, just an appetite inducer).
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I didnt QT. I didn't know what to do as this was my first saltwater tank 4 years ago. I got my advice from a LFS and it did help for the time being. Needless to say the fish have passed but not from ick. The tank was a 14 g biocube fowlr With just 2 clowns. No I didn't mean to say that garlic was a treatment
 
Darienreefs7 said:
I didnt QT. I didn't know what to do as this was my first saltwater tank 4 years ago. I got my advice from a LFS and it did help for the time being. Needless to say the fish have passed but not from ick. The tank was a 14 g biocube fowlr With just 2 clowns. No I didn't mean to say that garlic was a treatment
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Ah, I re-read what you wrote. You weren't talking about your fallow period.....my bad.
 
Darienreefs7 said:
Although this is not the best way of treating for ick, it worked for me when my clown fish got ick. I fed heavily with garlic and raised the tank temp to 81 degrees. I believe this irritates the ick in some way and will definitely help rid your tank of ick after the fallow period.
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Raising the temperature promotes the ich to reproduce quicker. So it is a good thing to do in QT for it to go through its life cycler faster.

Garlic is good to help keep a good immune system, but it isn't an actual treatment.
 
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