RX-P info?

I am wondering because I have a 75g tank with a lunare wrasse, a dogface, and barred rabbitfish and a tomato clown. After 2 weeks of qt, the puffer developed ich after 3 days in the show tank. this has been a week and I was hoping he would kick it after he gets settled but he hasn't gotten better. no worse either.. (about 10 salt specs) I also noticed the rabbit fish has a couple now too. the others are fine right now and all are eating like pigs and act perfectly normal. I do not want to nuke my biofilter with a copper product. (i have seacure but have not used it.) I would like it if anyone can give be any personal experience or thoughts about my using Kent RX-P. I bought a bottle but didn't do anything yet. any thoughts??

the tank has been up for 2 years and no prior diseases..

amonia, nitrite are 0 and nitrates are 15ppm. temp is 78 and sg is 1.023. my filter is a bio ball wet/dry system. Any ideas?? I would like it if I could get something safer than copper but still give results.. Also, I have no inverts or corals..

thanks, Puffalufagus

Thanks!!! I started tonight with a dip of the infected fish using 1 gallon of water and a capfull of rxp. the fish did fine.. after 15 minutes I put them in the tank again and added the rxp at 2 teaspoons per gallon. I mixed it with a gallon of water from the tank and added it to the sump. So far there have been no changes in the fishes at all (as far as behavior i mean) I noticed that the skimmer slowed down to almost no foam. I thought it would be opposite and try to pull the stuff out. however, I will adjust it as needed. I feel better about this treatment being safer for the fish and Bio filter.. I just hope it works. Like I said earlier, the fish that are effected are still acting normally like nothing is wrong and I am hopefull that this will be succesful since the fish are still quite strong buggers... I will keep you updated...


-Puff

Day 2....

P.H. and all other parameters are same with no fluctuations. the puffer has more spots on him than before but is still acting fine and eating. the rabbitfish has no more (and no less) spots on him. I repeated the RXP dip on the puffer and rabbit fish. 2 hours later they are fine as before. Waiting for next treatment. The skimmer,since treatment the first time has absolutely NO production. I tweaked it as much as I possibly can but there is nothing foaming up. hower I will keep trying. The hard part is patience..

I'm not gonna lose this puffer!!

next update tomorrow..


-Puff

day 3.... 2nd dose.

the puffer has a good amount of spots on him and the rabbit fish has a couple more. They both are acting normally and enjoyed the krill for tonight's dinning pleasure I added the dose and checked everything and all is good. The skimmer was foaming this afternoon for the first time since 1st treatment. as I poured the rxp (mixed with tankwater) in...and the skimmer stopped foaming imediately. (skimmers do not like RX-P I am finding out). anyway, that's all to report for now.. I'm hoping the spots will lessen soon or after next treatment. As long as I keep them eating and in good water quality I think I can wait it out and see if this is product is gonna work.

next update tomorrow


-Puff

Day 4....


All is the same in the tank tonight.... all fish feeding, parameters are same... spots are same also. no changes at all to report.

next update tomorrow after 3rd dose...



-Puff

day 5.. 3rd dose...


I added the third dose today.... I have not seen any mprovement whatsoever on these fish. If the spots do not improve in the very near futre I will discontinue and use copper. The RPX so far does not seem to effect anything yet it, if will at all. I am beginning to believe that this may be a witch doctor formula.. however I will try to hold off a day.

-Puff