Hi All,
Im trying to figure out what treatments I should use for my qt tank. Specifically, I want to know if there is an alternative to copper that works just as well because it seems that copper treatment is expensive in time and money (with lots of testing involved). If I'm using kick ich as a way to prevent ich from reinfecting the fish will that work to break the life cycle? I've seen post saying kick-ich is a prophylactic so it wont cure a fish with a bad case but would it still work in a qt setting?
also open to suggestions of other medications I should use.
And one other question - Ich stays in the Trophont (feeding) stage for 3 -14 days, and copper or kick ich kills ich in its Theront (free-swimming) stage, why do people qt for longer than 14 days? isn't that long enough to get the ich off the fish that you can transfer it to the DT (with at least one if not two dips/rinses to not transfer any ich in the water) I see a lot of people talking about 45+day treatments but if its off the fish and you put in precautions to not transfer it over in the water, isn't that enough?
Im trying to figure out what treatments I should use for my qt tank. Specifically, I want to know if there is an alternative to copper that works just as well because it seems that copper treatment is expensive in time and money (with lots of testing involved). If I'm using kick ich as a way to prevent ich from reinfecting the fish will that work to break the life cycle? I've seen post saying kick-ich is a prophylactic so it wont cure a fish with a bad case but would it still work in a qt setting?
also open to suggestions of other medications I should use.
And one other question - Ich stays in the Trophont (feeding) stage for 3 -14 days, and copper or kick ich kills ich in its Theront (free-swimming) stage, why do people qt for longer than 14 days? isn't that long enough to get the ich off the fish that you can transfer it to the DT (with at least one if not two dips/rinses to not transfer any ich in the water) I see a lot of people talking about 45+day treatments but if its off the fish and you put in precautions to not transfer it over in the water, isn't that enough?