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[driftfc]

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after losing my adult sebae clown to ick infesting its gills, i quarantined the rest of the fish for 6 weeks with hypo and garlic guard and all seemed good so i bought two new juvenile sebaes two weeks ago and quarantined them. so i added them to the main tank teo days ago and now the new sebaes are showing signs of ick, so it looks like i'll be setting iup another tank again. also if any one has every used kick ick, how did it work for you. and also my fish wont touch anything with garlic gaurd on it, i have f1 prime reef and and the reg kind of frozen food, they wont eat that stuff. the only thing they eat is f1 flake food and brine, mysis shrimp, any help wouild be greatly appreciated, this is starting to get aggrevating. i have no problems with any of my sifties or shrooms or zoos, actually anything other than fish i have no probs with but fish always give me a **** hard time. zack

[Rocketman]

try using real garlic juice mixed into the brine + mysis shrimp , f1 flake . ( works for me )
I also observed my clean shrimp cleaning parasites of my Regal Tang ( amazing to watch )

[Reefnut Shop]

Do a Google search for Kick-Ich and you will get a return of successes and terrible failures. It is not a guaranteed or truly accepted cure, and I would not risk my tank to it.

Your decision to quarantine them was a great one, but only doing it for a bit less then two weeks defeated things a bit. A minimum of four weeks of observation is recommended, at such time if nothing is observed you have pretty much gone through the entire time frame of the ich life cycle.

[Doctor_Reef]

Agree with Reefnut....Ditto's!!! I also wouldn't use Kick-Ich....