Ich Quarantine tank

[Jay Hemdal]

Hi, I am only running 14 due to that being seachem cupramine recommended time of treatment and he has been spot and symptom free since about day 6. He does have a bubble bar which helped his breathing tremendously at the start of QT. Seems today his weird behavior is gone and he ate just fine tonight and is back to swimming all around. Back in my display tank, no one has had any new symptoms and I did treat the main tank with some invert safe ich treatment and have had the temp turned up in the meantime.

At a minimum, you should treat for 14 days after the last spot disappeared, and move the fish out while there is still copper in the the water. Copper does not kill the resting tomont stage of ich. If you treat for 14 days total, and 6 of those days had an active infection going on, when you take the copper out, the resting stage can still reactivate and infect the fish again.

Jay