If you treat ALL incoming fish with prazipro and something for ich/velvet/whatever (hyposalinity, cupramine, quinine sulfate) then there is little to worry about
Ich is only in a tank if you put it there
Ich is only in a tank if you put it there
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Pinneatus Batfish hands down, even the tank raised ones break out in ich. The wild ones not only break out in ich but are hard to get eating. I have 2 tank raised ones coming in today actually.
If you treat ALL incoming fish with prazipro and something for ich/velvet/whatever (hyposalinity, cupramine, quinine sulfate) then there is little to worry about
Ich is only in a tank if you put it there
My powder blue would get ich off and on for almost a year, no lie. He would get better then worse, better, then worse, he always ate like a pig though. After a year went by like that he finally never got it again. I have had him almost 5 years now and he is king of the tank. I never though he would make it, but now he is my favorite fish.
That's good to hear there's hope nick! So there's no secret? Just feed and ride it out?
Actually there are new studies suggesting ich can lay dormant in a fishless marine tank for up to ten months and possibly longer. The best medicine for treating ich is copper, everything else MIGHT work(except hyposalinity).
The only fish I have ever had die of ich was a coral beauty angel that I for from petco on my way home from the coast. It was fine at the store but when I started floating it it had already started showing signs and by the next day it was covered in cists. It died a week later. It was a two hour drive from petco to my house, and my cat was beating at the bag like it thought it was getting a fresh meal so who knows what happened.
And I have a powder blue and a yellow belly regal tang that are considered ich magnets by many. *now excuse me while I go find some wood to knock on*
Got a link to these studies, i would be very interested to see this. Did you mean 10 weeks?