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Originally posted by billsreef
As your discovering, those so called reef safe ich "cures" are also ich safe  The ich parasite, Cryptocaryon irritans, is a very well understood and easily treated parasite. There are two reliable, scientifically proven methods that work. Both will require the fish to be treated in a seperate quarantine tank (QT), as neither method is invert safe. The first method is copper, with Sea Chems Cupramine being the best one.
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my 10 plus years of sw experience was with predators and nothing reef. Since my 20 gal is not cycled I took my live rock and put it in there with my shrimps and feather duster. Even with water from my main tank I was not confident about the ammonia not spiking and killing my four firefish if I would have put the fish in the 20 gallon instead. anyways I will treat now with copper and after the ich is gone(4-6 weeks), filter with carbon, and do a water change before putting back the live rock and inverts....
btw what would happen if live rock was in with copper? I mean I know it would kill some of it, but would it then polute my tank? just curious, because at this point I am fed up with trying to get rid of ich without copper. thats how I got rid of it always before....
thanks..