Ruby Reef Kick Ich Pro (32 oz)

Effective solution for early stage ich outbreak in display tank. No impact on corals.

Do not use this product kills SPS and dammages LPS coral. used exactly as prescribed and this was the worst thing that happened to my reef tank.

This is one of my go to products for dealing with Ich.

Let me start by saying that ich is in my tank and has been for years. If you ever had it, it is always present unless you have the tank fallow for some weeks. It will be come active on my blue tang when he gets super stressed and apparently adding two new fish and some fresh sand did it this time. As soon as I saw the spots I started adding extreme garlic and garlic nori as this usually knocks it back. He kept getting worse so I opted for this. Pretty sure I used it several years back as well. Followed the instructions and he got better after about a week and stopped the crazy behavior. I have a 90gal mixed reef and it did no harm to to any softies or LPS, I have no SPS.

Ive been treating my 40 gallon marine tank for two months now at the recommended dosage amount and interval. Im still getting cycles of more white spots every few days. Im honestly surprised the fish have held on for this long. So far I have lost three out of the four fish. The best I could say about this product is that it has not harmed the couple soft coral I have (toadstool and hairy mushroom) nor the invertebrates. I do not have a quarantine tank, so my choices for treatment that wouldnt outright kill them were very limited. Maybe I just brought home a very resistant parasite strain. Im not sure. If things improve and treatment can finally stop I'll update this review. Update- Treated the tank for approx. three months. I still have the ocellaris clownfish whom seems to be immune to the ich somehow as Ive not seen any spots these last few weeks after the last fish died from the parasite while treatment has continued. It seems that adding other fish just makes makes the parasite increase in population again. Planning to end treatment once the bottle of Kick Ich is used up as the recommended time period with no spots to stop dosing has passed. I'll just wait a few months to add any more fish and hope the parasite dies out on it's own. I did use Rally Pro a few times as per recommendation while treating with Kick Ich. I cant say if that helped or not given the persistence of the Ich. It didnt seem to make it worse at least. Also, I dosed the tank with these medicines right after light off. I think some components of Rally are photosensitive. Rally makes the water look green, and I noticed that the green would fade a lot faster if I dosed it in the morning or during the day while the light was on.