Marine ICH outbreak - help needed!!

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I have a 14 gallon tank with one Teddy Puffer. We have an outbreak of marine ICH and Unfortunately we lost our 2 clowns and royal gramma.

We increased the temperature to 27 degrees, treated the tank using eSHa oodinex (day 1: 14 drops, day 2/3: 7 drops) but unfortunately our puffer seems to be getting worse. We are unsure what to do next as this is our first ever outbreak of ICH in a marine tank. Should I continue using the eSHa treatment even after the 3 days?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Try hypo salinity . Is there any way you can get him into a quarantine tank to treat with copper ?? If there is not other inhabitants in the tank you can’t put him back for at least 2 1/2 -3 months to let the life cycle of the ick to die out without a host
 

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I have a 14 gallon tank with one Teddy Puffer. We have an outbreak of marine ICH and Unfortunately we lost our 2 clowns and royal gramma.

We increased the temperature to 27 degrees, treated the tank using eSHa oodinex (day 1: 14 drops, day 2/3: 7 drops) but unfortunately our puffer seems to be getting worse. We are unsure what to do next as this is our first ever outbreak of ICH in a marine tank. Should I continue using the eSHa treatment even after the 3 days?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/P4rXocPYtgucGoHd9
Welcome to Reef2Reef!

I’ve not used oodinex, but the ingredients are not really good at treating marine ich, especially at low doses.

Raising the water temperature is a treatment for freshwater ich, it actually makes marine ich worse.

Once fish loss has occurred due to ich, it is often not possible to stop the infection fast enough to keep additional fish from dying.

Are there invertebrates in the tank? If not, hyposalinity, as mentioned, would be an option.

Jay
 

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