The name "Prevent-Ich™," which really means "prevent single-celled diseases," is meant to emphasize that it is important that preventative treatments should be used at every step of keeping aquarium and pond fishes.  It is a lot easier and safer to prevent infections from occurring,  than in having to cope with them after they have become life threatening to the fishes.  This includes using the treatment while the fishes are being quarantined. 

Kordon Prevent-Ich is an easy to use treatment composed of 100% multiple organic ingredients for all types of external and epidermal single-celled infections.  It's broad spectrum of activity and lack of toxicity makes Prevent-Ich effective without requiring a specific diagnosis. It stops infectious and external parasitic invasions from getting started and in turn prevents many secondary infections.  In short, Prevent-Ich suppresses and eliminates a wide spectrum of infections.

Prevent-Ich is effective against protozoan parasites on fishes and aquatic invertebrates, whether fresh or brackish water, or marine.  These comprise dozens of genera and species of fish-infecting species in fresh and salt water, each kind with distinctive characteristics in their infections.  The groups include "white spot disease" and other ciliates (Ichthyophthirius in fresh water,  and Cryptocaryon, Brooklynella, Trichodina in marine), and "sporozoan parasites" (for which many infectors of aquarium fish are marine).

Dinoflagellate infections treated by Prevent-Ich are photosynthetic single-celled organisms which include Oodinium (velvet disease),  Amyloodinium (coral fish disease), Tetrahymena, as well as other infectious dinoflagellates.

Prevent-Ich works well against fungi which are very important pathogens of fishes and their eggs. These fungi include for fresh water the species of Saprolegnia, Achlya, Leptomitus, Pythium, and for marine Exophiala, Ichthyophonus,  Prevent-Ich is especially suitable for tropical marine aquariums containing aquatic invertebrates,  because it also treats their fungal infections, while not adversely affecting coral reef animals, including corals, anemones, starfish, snails, crabs, and shrimp.

The herbals used in Prevent-Ich have been selected because they have been shown to have a powerful effect against aquatic diseases, yet are far more forgiving on the animals than harsh chemicals. What Kordon has created , led by Dr. Michael Tierra - a well known herbalist whose books on natural botanical treatments are widely read - is to determine carefully which herbals can be used together to cover a wide spectrum of external fungal and other aquatic diseases. The result is completely unique, very effective, and truly easy to use.