Ich treatment

[Ironman]

everyone so far has givin pretty good advice so I dont want to repeat things. Here is some advice for your current situation:
First off are the infected fish still eating? If so try and find some poudered metronidazole from your local pet store, if you find the pills thats ok just crush them up into powder. thaw 2 cubes of brine shrimp or mysis shrimp in 1 ounce of tank water. add some metronidazole powder to the mixture and stur it till its mixed in (only use about a 1/2 the size of a tylenol amount of powder) it doesnt have to be precise just dont go overboard with it. Let that mixture soak for 15 minutes to let the medicine soak into the food. then feed the fish that mixture every day or other day till they are looking good again. One of the most important treatments for disease is good feeding, a well fed fish will usually survive anything. ive found that this treatment is a better solution as it doesnt add enough medication to the water to be a problem, but it adds more medication to the fish than adding it to the water would do. I dont recommend this treatment for nano cubes as the water quantiy is small enough that the metronidazole could be a problem, but for larger tanks its not a problem.
If the fish arnt eating than odds are they are already gonners, ive never seen a fish servive once it stops eating. as for a quarantine, they are good for treating and watching newly purchased fish. but once a fish is put into a display aquarium and gets sick it is usually more stressful and detrimental to remove them to a new setting again.
as for KICK ICH - ive never used it cause I dont add tratment chemicals to my tank water. but I have had friends use it with success, i have also had friends that say it didnt help. So I cant tell you for sure.

the water parameters are important in the fishes stress level also. you should make sure your Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH, Salinity, and temperature are all within acceptable ranges. You can raise the temperature alittle if you normally keep it low to help speed up the life cycle of ICH. I wouldnt raise it above 80 though.
hope this helps.
Bryan

[Nu2Reefs]

I hope you dont mind me jumping in here but I have a question. I have been following this post and treating my tang as advised with lots of food (brine or mysid shrimp soaked in garlic, and sea veggies on a clip) he seems to be better and eating very well but;
1. when do I know if he has kicked it or its just the cycle? He started out with just a few spots, got better, then got covered in them which lasted about 3-4 day on and off today he looks better once more.
2. Should I still try to get the Metronidozole ( pet stores didn't have it so I had to wait till today to call the vet)
3. Nitrates climbing due to heavy feeding (10) do a water change or will that just stress him all over again?

[Bifferwine]

Can't help you with 1 or 2, but if it was me, I'd do a water change. I think high nitrates would be more stressful than a water change.

[Ironman]

hello, 10 on the nitrates isnt a big deal, but a water change shouldnt hurt as long as you dont do a major change. you could wait alittle longer to do one but the higher the nitrates get the harder it is to bring them back down. if the fish seems to be responding to the heavy feeding keep it up. if your soaking the frozen foods in a cup and feeding it straight to the fish without straining the juices that the food was frozen in that can affect your phosphates and nitates alittle. the gell they freeze the food in can be nasty stuff. I personally dont strain mine but have heard of alot of people that have to, to keep the water cleaner. anyway as for the metronodazole it can be hard to find in some local pet stores. its even gotten hard to order. here is what I ordered last time. Metronidazole

its alot of it and youlll never use hardly any of it. but I havent really seen smaller doses of it yet. if you were local id give you some. good luck man

[Bifferwine]

You might want to try soaking the food in garlic extract before you feed too.

[Nu2Reefs]

Thanks to both of you. The tang seems to be doing ok. Still eating well but still breaking out with spots every other day then gone overnight. I did a water change. Got it back down below 5. And yes I rince the food and soak it in garlic extreme after rinsing for about 15min. There's a store about an hour away that carries something called Metro+ that is supposed to be Metronidazole. Any thoughts on this product. I thought I might try to get out there this weekend and pick up some of it and some selcon. ( Also recomended by someone for extra vitamins etc.)