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+1 !From what I've read fresh water dips do nothing for Ich. Helpful with flukes but not Ich. Ich is only susceptble to hyposalinity when it's in it's free swimming stages not while encysted on the fish. Good luck but the only way I've successfully treated Ich (in a QT) is with Copper or tank transfer.
FW is dip is Hypo. Most people won't put the fish in for the dip long enough, just a minute or 2 does not help. It should be done up to 30mins, or up until the fish doens't look like he'll make it.From what I've read fresh water dips do nothing for Ich. Helpful with flukes but not Ich. Ich is only susceptble to hyposalinity when it's in it's free swimming stages not while encysted on the fish. Good luck but the only way I've successfully treated Ich (in a QT) is with Copper or tank transfer.
FW is dip is Hypo. Most people won't put the fish in for the dip long enough, just a minute or 2 does not help. It should be done up to 30mins, or up until the fish doens't look like he'll make it.
Not true, the parasite can't exsist under the new pressure, theres a big difference between SW pressure and FW pressure. The parasite pops if given enough time in the FW.
But if you do the treatment then put them immediately back into the DT and haven't killed the parasite in the QT, then it will go right back to the fish.
It takes 8 weeks for Hypo because the fish couldn't handle being in FW that long, you could dip the fish in FW then drop them into Hypo, which would speed up the process, but I'd still not remove them before an 8 week period.