I've read through it. I'm looking at what I saw in my situation which is this...
1) Bought a tang with no ich, which developed ich most likely due to stress from being plucked from the ocean shipped and stuck in a 20 gallon tank.
2) Ich appeared and I dosed Copper Power based on recommendations from a friend who used it with great success always.
3) Copper Power gave me no success. (Which kind of proves that each situation and fish is different, just like in the ginger scenario).
4) I came onto this forum to get advice, which was to ditch the copper power and use Cupramine.
5) Was unable to get the Copper Power out of the water quickly via carbon or a 75% water, so in the mean time I decided to try out ginger.
6) Fed with ginger 3 times
7) Ich gone.
Now, I understand people are skeptical about treatments like this, but hey it worked for me on this fish. I am not going to take this fish and immediately put it in my display and consider it cured. It will now start Cupramine treatment and have it sit in there another month. But I have to admit the only thing that got the ich off the fish was feedings with ginger. It helped the fish's immune system and brought back all it's color, just like chicken soup would do if I had a cold. I monitored this fish for 3 weeks with copper in the water and with frequent water changes and it spent most of its time lying on the bottom of the tank or hiding. After it got the ginger in it everything changed. It's not a cure, but it's definitely a treatment for this particular situation. Not saying it will work for another fish or another reefer, but it worked here. Also, just as a general question...let's say I use the ginger and the ich completely goes away. If that fish remains in the QT for a full month without the ich returning, wouldn't it be considered that the fish is cured? The life cycle of ich says that if it doesn't find a fish host after multiplying, it dies. So if the ginger improves the immune system of the fish enough for it to fight off the ich and the ich therefore dies because of that, isn't that good enough to say that the ginger's ability to boost the fish's immune system cured it?
Now that we are past off of the bashing about it not being scientifically proven. The real story here is that there is an animal that was sick that is feeling and looking much better. Treatment will continue with copper as recommended by everyone and I will keep you posted. Hopefully I can get this guy into my display soon.
1) Bought a tang with no ich, which developed ich most likely due to stress from being plucked from the ocean shipped and stuck in a 20 gallon tank.
2) Ich appeared and I dosed Copper Power based on recommendations from a friend who used it with great success always.
3) Copper Power gave me no success. (Which kind of proves that each situation and fish is different, just like in the ginger scenario).
4) I came onto this forum to get advice, which was to ditch the copper power and use Cupramine.
5) Was unable to get the Copper Power out of the water quickly via carbon or a 75% water, so in the mean time I decided to try out ginger.
6) Fed with ginger 3 times
7) Ich gone.
Now, I understand people are skeptical about treatments like this, but hey it worked for me on this fish. I am not going to take this fish and immediately put it in my display and consider it cured. It will now start Cupramine treatment and have it sit in there another month. But I have to admit the only thing that got the ich off the fish was feedings with ginger. It helped the fish's immune system and brought back all it's color, just like chicken soup would do if I had a cold. I monitored this fish for 3 weeks with copper in the water and with frequent water changes and it spent most of its time lying on the bottom of the tank or hiding. After it got the ginger in it everything changed. It's not a cure, but it's definitely a treatment for this particular situation. Not saying it will work for another fish or another reefer, but it worked here. Also, just as a general question...let's say I use the ginger and the ich completely goes away. If that fish remains in the QT for a full month without the ich returning, wouldn't it be considered that the fish is cured? The life cycle of ich says that if it doesn't find a fish host after multiplying, it dies. So if the ginger improves the immune system of the fish enough for it to fight off the ich and the ich therefore dies because of that, isn't that good enough to say that the ginger's ability to boost the fish's immune system cured it?
Now that we are past off of the bashing about it not being scientifically proven. The real story here is that there is an animal that was sick that is feeling and looking much better. Treatment will continue with copper as recommended by everyone and I will keep you posted. Hopefully I can get this guy into my display soon.