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Can ich travel on coral ? If so can we dip the coral in like revive to kill it ? I need to know asap please
Can ICH Travel On Coral ?
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drstratton
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I'm going to ask @Humblefish for you!
Ich, like all external parasites, has a tomont stage (think of it like parasite eggs) which can encyst upon "glass, plastic, gravel, metal, wood, and 'shell materials' including staghorn corals." - Peter Burgess 1992 study
So it's logical to conclude tomonts can stick to any hard surface. Think snail/hermit shells, SPS/LPS "stony corals", even soft corals have calcium needles in their tissue.
IMO; It's unlikely any coral dip eradicates tomonts since not even copper can do that due to the hard cyst. The only thing you can do is place all corals/inverts in a fishless frag tank for 76 days to wait the tomonts out. Once theronts are released from the tomonts and they fail to find a fish host to feed upon within 48 hrs, ich's life cycle ends.
So it's logical to conclude tomonts can stick to any hard surface. Think snail/hermit shells, SPS/LPS "stony corals", even soft corals have calcium needles in their tissue.
IMO; It's unlikely any coral dip eradicates tomonts since not even copper can do that due to the hard cyst. The only thing you can do is place all corals/inverts in a fishless frag tank for 76 days to wait the tomonts out. Once theronts are released from the tomonts and they fail to find a fish host to feed upon within 48 hrs, ich's life cycle ends.
Yes; ich, velvet, brook & uronema all have a tomont stage. You can also bring in flukes/worms on a coral, as those lay eggs which invariably fall out of a fish and settle elsewhere. Coral dips DO NOT eradicate eggs of Red Planaria flatworms (for example) so I doubt it would kill flukes eggs either.
1. yes 2. no
Yes but not that way exclusively
nope
Good Idea! Post number 5 for the answer, just figured I'd quote to pull these guys back in...
Ok its clear that ich could be on a plug or rock or any other “material”
Could ich tomont travel on sps tissue?
Asking because got a few frags and i dont trust my *** tank for 72days.
Plan was to break frags of sps and glue them to new plugs so that way only sps travels to dt?
Could ich tomont travel on sps tissue?
Asking because got a few frags and i dont trust my *** tank for 72days.
Plan was to break frags of sps and glue them to new plugs so that way only sps travels to dt?
Yes; in fact, Acropora was directly tested during Peter Burgess 1992 study. Tomonts attached and encysted.
Instigate
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That would do nothing for ich tomont.
Apart from QT in a fallow tank for the 6-8 week life cycle nothing will get rid of it with 100% certainty. Most systems are running with ich in the tank, but as long as nothing is stressing your fish (bad water quality) and they are well fed/have a healthy slime coat they should be fine. I have a hippo tang that has the occasional bout of ich and nothing else in the tank has ever gotten it.
The Opinionated Reefer
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Was it not dead acropora?
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