Fenbendazole is a chemical used in dog deworming medications used in shrimp tanks to eradicate planaria and hydra.
A several months ago, I used it for hydra in my shrimp tanks and had quite a bit left over. At the same time, I was also quarantining some green neons for a friend so I said to myself "what the hell" and threw it in. I did this for two days along with a malachite green treatment and the ich completely disappeared.
At the time I wasn't sure whether it was the fenbendazole that helped the fish get better but I've had prior experience with treating ich with malachite green and it took a lot longer than it did when I used it in combination with fenbendazole.
After working at aqua forest for several months, I finally got steven(owner) to let me use fenbendazole in the shrimp tanks to get rid of planaria. We had some left over medication and some quarantine tanks with ich so I added some medication into a quarantine tank with ich infested phantom tetras and bushynose plecos. I added 2 tweezer pinches of fenbendazole powder in the 20 gallon tank about every other day for 6-8 days and the ich disappeared.
Since that worked, we've been using it in all tanks with ich.
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