Reef Safe Medications

K I know even the idea of a reef safe medication is going to cause controversy all over the place... but here's the deal, I've already lost 6 fish.  I'm doing everything I can to keep my naso and yellow tangs, and hawk fish from going down the drain.  I don't have any corals that are real sensitive, although I do have a fire shrimp, some brittle/serpant stars, anemones, and peppermint shrimp, aside from frogspawn, all of my corals are softies.  So if you have personally used a medication in your tank with inverts and corals and had success, please tell me what you used.

Thanks,

Tim

And I know, medication isn't the solution, I need to figure out the problem... and I"m working on that, I'm just trying to cut my losses while looking for the problem.

Tim, I assume you are battling ich.  The only way to completely remove the parasite is to remove the fish from the tank.  The ich life cycle takes about 6 weeks.  I'd suggest doing what Crazy Tarzan said and move them to a hospital tank to medicate.  The ich parisite in the main tank will die without fish to feed on for 6 weeks.  You might want to also try garlic juice and a UV sterilizer to speed up the recovery of your fish. 

I have used MelaFix also with no problems.  I have all softies.  Like Will said, turn off the skimmer because it really will go nuts with that stuff in the tank.

I'm curious which herbal stuff shawn recommended?

I'm guessing melafix

your best and safest bet to save your fish and your mind is to pull them all out. Gobies, tangs you name it. Pull them out and hypo them in a hospital tank for 6 weeks. It's not too much work if you don't lose anymore fish

Well I lost my foxface, yellow eye, and naso, I'm assuming they were too far gone by the time I started treating my tank... My yellow tang has completely recovered, as has my long nose hawkfish...  No one else is showing signs of ich.

I'm mostly happy with the results, I think if I would have started sooner I would have lost less fish... Oh well... 

Good luck!