Ich… Ready to throw in the towel.

[aufan1]

On two separate occasions, I have lost fish to ich and it’s starting to get me down. The first time around I tried the hypo method and dropped the salinity to 1.009. I did this slowly and took 4 days to do this. I lost the fish within a few days. Was this too slow? This time around I tried to medicate my q-tank with Organi Cure from Aquarium Products. This fish lasted about 2 days before it died. Yes, I followed the directions, one drop per gallon. I don’t think I could have overmedicated because the directions say to “repeat� the dosage in 48 hours. Am I just getting sick fish to begin with or am I doing something wrong? I keep reading that everyone who gets ich seems to be able to cure their fish and I’m starting to wonder what’s wrong with me! Is Ich really this difficult to kill? Is everyone else just lucky? I feel like a fish in my hands with ich has a guaranteed death sentence.

Incase anyone isn’t familiar with Organi Cure, the bottle says it a marine parasite treatment and the active ingredients are Copper 1.25% and Formaldehyde 17% in a tri-chelated form. I’m just trying to give as much detail of the product so I can get some help.