ich.
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Germanman
My fish are my babies
depends on the fish you have and if you have inverts and corals.
here is a long one form another post of mine all about ich enjoy...lol
i let ich pass in my aquarium. its a natural thing and there are many things you can do to aid the faster removal. there are hypo salinity and hospital tanks seem to be out of the question in some cases u cant get the fish out or corals and inverts cant handel the low salinity. what i did is made sure the water parmaters were not only excellent but also i feed an extra healthy balanced diet and added Kent Garlic x-treme,(it doesnt keep the parasites off it just make the fishes immune system stronger like in humans). that combine with my UV sterilizer and a cleaner shrimp and a cleaner wrasse got rid of my problem it has now been one week since ive seen any "ich" on my fish. the cycle will be a bit tough on them and ich there for has a chance to attack. the chance that you can get rid of ich completely is very slim epically in a reef. hypo salinity will usually work with fish only but with a reef it will kill and devastate most inverts at the level it would actually be affective. both the medications that were listed by others work well and are almost completely reef safe but with some of the more delicate inverts it can cause stress. also skimmers will pull out any organic treatment and any "safe" chemical agent will still cause some harm to inverts even if it barely shows. ich comes in two forms and isnt actually the Ichthyophthirius parasite which is freshwater but is rather the Cryptocaryon protozoan. there are two main ones that affect fish in the trade of the two the most common inbeds itself under the protective slime layer of the fish making only manule removal or strong copper treatment a cure. dips and most other medications cant get to it. they only way it can be killed affectively is when it is in its free swimming larval form which a UV will do a great job killing or only then will the medications kill it. as for the other form it is stronger than the freshwater "ich" but can be killed by medications most always. the later looks more like bumps and the first are more laterally compressed bumps that look almost like snow on the fish.
__________________hope this helps u!
here is a long one form another post of mine all about ich enjoy...lol
i let ich pass in my aquarium. its a natural thing and there are many things you can do to aid the faster removal. there are hypo salinity and hospital tanks seem to be out of the question in some cases u cant get the fish out or corals and inverts cant handel the low salinity. what i did is made sure the water parmaters were not only excellent but also i feed an extra healthy balanced diet and added Kent Garlic x-treme,(it doesnt keep the parasites off it just make the fishes immune system stronger like in humans). that combine with my UV sterilizer and a cleaner shrimp and a cleaner wrasse got rid of my problem it has now been one week since ive seen any "ich" on my fish. the cycle will be a bit tough on them and ich there for has a chance to attack. the chance that you can get rid of ich completely is very slim epically in a reef. hypo salinity will usually work with fish only but with a reef it will kill and devastate most inverts at the level it would actually be affective. both the medications that were listed by others work well and are almost completely reef safe but with some of the more delicate inverts it can cause stress. also skimmers will pull out any organic treatment and any "safe" chemical agent will still cause some harm to inverts even if it barely shows. ich comes in two forms and isnt actually the Ichthyophthirius parasite which is freshwater but is rather the Cryptocaryon protozoan. there are two main ones that affect fish in the trade of the two the most common inbeds itself under the protective slime layer of the fish making only manule removal or strong copper treatment a cure. dips and most other medications cant get to it. they only way it can be killed affectively is when it is in its free swimming larval form which a UV will do a great job killing or only then will the medications kill it. as for the other form it is stronger than the freshwater "ich" but can be killed by medications most always. the later looks more like bumps and the first are more laterally compressed bumps that look almost like snow on the fish.
__________________hope this helps u!
For another opinion on the matter, I would advise that if it is truly a parasitic problem, the proper way is to remove ALL the fish to a hospital tank and treat with hypo-salinity or copper. The show tank needs to be left fishless for a period of 6 to 8 weeks.
All future fish added to the tank should also be treated the same way before placing in the show tank.
All future fish added to the tank should also be treated the same way before placing in the show tank.
Here are somewhat recent threads on marine ich (including Germanman's above post 
):
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98596&highlight=ich
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97251&highlight=ich
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95347&highlight=ich
):http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98596&highlight=ich
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97251&highlight=ich
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95347&highlight=ich