Fish problem

[Mr Cob]

Actually she didn't.

It's a stickiy on the Emergency Forum.

Here it is:
http://maast.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49040

[Gilbertg78228]

i had it once and was told to ad ZOE to there food when i feed them. so i would let the ZOE soak in the food for about an hour or so before i feed them and it took care of the problem. no more ick and the fish where very healthy. never came back well hasn't come back yet and its been over a year.

[brewercm]

i had it once and was told to ad ZOE to there food when i feed them. so i would let the ZOE soak in the food for about an hour or so before i feed them and it took care of the problem. no more ick and the fish where very healthy. never came back well hasn't come back yet and its been over a year.

I might need to try this out. Do you know where they might sell it locally?

[Marlin]

I'm going thru a war with ich right now. About 2 weeks ago I did something I tell everyone else not to do, I bought a clown tang from the LFS and put it directly into my 180 gal SPS reef tank. A couple of days later I notice that is showing signs of ich. Next thing I know my powder blue tang and copperband are showing signs of ich. In a couple of days they were all covered with it and the same with the purple firefish. They showed no signs of fast breathing and were eating well.
I tried all different ways of catching them but they are way too smart and with 150 lbs of live rock for them to hide in, it was virtually impossible.
Last evening I decided the only way to save the fish was to remove about 75 pieces of coral and all 150 lbs of live rock. A friend of mine helped me. We finally caught the fish after the tank was emptied and put them in a QT tank. Worked all night and finally finished putting all the rock and coral back into the tank around 4 A.M. this morning.
I did not lose any coral in the process and the fish are in the QT tank and happily eating. I am treating with Copper Safe. I can already see a difference this morning. Most of the white spots have dropped off. I will keep the reef tank fishless for 8 weeks and the fish will stay in QT for the duration. This should rid the fish and tank of ich.
I do not ever want to go thru this again. I will follow my own advise from now on!!!

Rick

[Gilbertg78228]

the ZOE can be found at any fish store. i tried all the ick meds they had at the fish stores. funny thing is the ZOE really worked and it was probably the cheapest. i use it all the time now i soak the food in it and liek i said i havn't seen any signs of ICK and i have a yellow tang and they get ick allot.

[Kristy]

We've used Zoe when we were working through the Ich too. I'm pretty sure we bought ours from AD. It's just basically a vitamin for your fish to keep their resistance up. We don't soak the food for an hour though, just a few minutes and often with a drop or two of garlic (with the hopes that it helps keep them interested in eating). Now we bust out the Zoe anytime a fish seems unusally stressed (such as if we are introducing a new fish that is getting the special hazing welcome from our powder blue).