Count yourself lucky. Our Ick problem cost us about $300 in fish. We have a 150 gal Salt Water Reef aquarium. Copper will fight Ick, but Copper would wipe out the more expensive part of the tank, the live coral. After loosing several fish we had to quarantine all the fish in a sterile tank for weeks, while we did multiple water changes on the reef tank. It was a horrible experience, and many salt water aquarium hobbyist quite the hobby during their first Ick breakout.
Our’s is back and as beautiful as ever. Now we quarantine all new fish to make sure nothing enters.
“We have a 150 gal Salt Water Reef aquarium”
I envy you :-)! I’d love to be able to put something like this together but time always gets in the way. Someday :-)! I used to maintain a freshwater aquarium growing up and I miss that. After seeing some saltwater fish, I would LOVE to go that route, but I’d kill those poor fish within a week.