Nov 24 2007
Aquarium Product Review - QuICK Cure Ich Medication
This product promotes itself as a fast cure for ich and other parasites, and from my experience it is a very effective treatment. I can’t vouch for its claim to cure ich in two days in all cases, but it is a rather fast-working product. I like that this product is not as harsh a treatment as the wide-spectrum antibiotic preparations that people too often use for fish diseases. While it seems natural to reach for strong microbials when your fish are sick, it can stress out your fish even more, making things worse. QuICK Cure cures ich without resorting to antibiotics.
As with all ich treatment regimes, this works better if you raise the aquarium temperatures and keep the hood lights off. That will help speed along the ich parasite’s life cycle and keeps your fish in a quiet healing state.
Other caveats - you have to remove the carbon from your aquarium filters before adding the treatment drops, or it won’t work at all.
You will need to use the smaller recommended dose with tetras. Thin-skinned fishes, like the catfishes, botias and loaches must actually be removed, since the malachite green in the medication is too readily absorbed and is toxic to them.
QuICK Cure comes in a small dropper squeezy container. A 4 oz bottle treats thousands of gallons, which is a lot of ich. In other words, this one product should last your lifetime! Remember not to over-treat; use only the amount recommended per gallon. This product will turn your water blue and will dye anything else it touches. Be careful not to let this stuff touch you too much, since formalin is a cancer-causing agent.
If you have a big ich infestation, I recommend using this medication. Make sure to use it correctly, of course! For a small ich outbreak, you might want to just try high temps, no lights and massive water changes first. 
Stumble it!
Good info, but what do you do if your clown loach is the one with Ich?
If it’s a loach, you really have to be careful. This is a case where you turn off the tank lights, add salt to the water (read the aquarium salt instructions on that), make sure to raise the temps, and let your poor fish relax and heal in a quiet space.
You can best do these things in a small hospital tank where it’s easy to control the conditions, and treat the rest of your aquarium with the Ich medicine.