ich disaster!!

hey im having troubles with ichssssss. i    bought a sailfin tang and the next day i sold my puffer to my buddy.  today i took some coral from my tank and put them in my other buddies tank, i went to the friends house where my old puffer is and noticed white spots all over him... ich.. that got me nervous so i came to my house and my lionfish has lost a lot of color and i noticed spots on him. i looked at the sailfin and noticed a crap load of spots on him. my lunar wrasse had only a couple spots and i didnt see any on my snowflake eel. i went right away to walmart and bought garlic pills, i mixed the garlic gel in with my fish food and fed the fish. all my fish other than the sailfin ate food.

Ich does attach to substrate before becoming free swimming, so it's reasonable to believe that Ich could be transferred on coral, rocks, sand etc. 

Stinky Garlic oil in the gel caps works best for me, but when Ich has not gone in a day or two, I try another Garlic product.
Whenever I add or move a fish I use Garlic Oil when feeding once/day for 5 days. Marinate it into the frozen meaty food without water and feed small clumps a little at a time to be sure all the food gets eaten as quickly as it enters the water.
If necessary, I feed Garlic about every 2-4 weeks as a preventive measure.

When they stop eating it's a bad sign that they are probably beyond help. The only other thing would be to catch the fish and place it in a medicated hospital tank which has been set up long enough to be a good biofiltered environment.

Don't feel bad. Sailfin Tangs are some of the hardest to keep eating. I've lost more of them than any other Zebrasoma species Tang.

how big is your tank? what are your water parameters? do you have a pic of your tank?

I got to this posting late and I hope you have not had any casualties yet. Here are a couple options.

http://www.novalek.com/kordon/ich_attack/index.htm

All herbal natural ich attack safe for corals, invertebrates, and your bacteria. I have seen it at Marine Aquatics and The Aquarium for $4-$7 a bottle. Haven't tested it so I cant speak on results.

Another option:

http://www.fishvet.com/no-ich.htm

Another completely coral, invertebrate, and bacteria safe product. This I have only found online so you would have to wait for it to get shipped, but I have seen this product used first hand in a reef tank with a sailfin tang that was covered. Over a year later and the fish is healthy and alive as he ever could be.

Oh, and someone correct me if I am wrong, but your snowflake is and should always be in the clear. Eels are considered invertebrates and therefore will never be able to contract that wicked ich disease, so he should be in the clear.

See i knew someone had more information about the eel than me