The ich not being on the fish just means it moved onto the next stage in the life cycle and will come back in a few weeks.

Treating ich in a reef tank. If you find whitespot on a fish in your established reef tank then you need to treat the whole tank with a reef safe whitespot treatment and hope for the best. Use as directed, remove carbon. Possible new copper free treatment for ich within a reef tank.

Without a fish host to maintain their life cycle, the ich parasites will die out in a display reef aquarium within 76 days at the most. I've read that it kills the ich in it's free swimming state before it latches on to your fish. That said, i've used reef rally by itself to combat uronema with no problems.

Using copper (copper sulfate) to treat saltwater ich. Allow this to run for 2 hours. Using copper to treat a marine ich infection is probably the gold standard method.

Btw, the company makes no claims that reef. Once the tank has the ich parasites, the most effective medications to eradicate it are not safe for corals and invertebrates. The problem with treating marine ich in a reef tank is that the corals and all the other inverts in a reef tank are likely to be very adversely affected by any of the meds and the.

So i suspect the kick ich component was at fault. Nanomania, nov 30, 2011 #1. The good news is that treating ich is possible with the right knowledge, medications, and techniques.

Tea tree oil from india or garlic extract or any other herbal/natural “medication” is. Rather than treating the main aquarium, move the sick fish to a bare bottomed quarantine or treatment tank. The best way to eradicate ich from your reef aquarium and prevent.