Currently treating ich on a fish... question.

[Fallguy44]

I have a juvenile hippo tang that has ich. I had previously started a thread about fallowing. At this time, I am only going to treat this 1 fish showing symptoms.

I have a QT set up. I just did a fresh water dip and am now giving him a bath in Kordon Ich Plus.

Question is should I continue the process and place him in the QT and dose with Coppersafe, which currently have, or since I'm not fallowing can I place him back in the DT after treatment?

 

[Crabs McJones]

I have a juvenile hippo tang that has ich. I had previously started a thread about fallowing. At this time, I am only going to treat this 1 fish showing symptoms.

I have a QT set up. I just did a fresh water dip and am now giving him a bath in Kordon Ich Plus.

Question is should I continue the process and place him in the QT and dose with Coppersafe, which currently have, or since I'm not fallowing can I place him back in the DT after treatment?

Do you have other fish in the display? Problem is if you only treat this one fish, as soon as you put him back in the display tank that you are not letting go fallow, where the ich parasite is still alive because there are other fish, it's just going to come back.

 

[Fallguy44]

Do you have other fish in the display? Problem is if you only treat this one fish, as soon as you put him back in the display tank that you are not letting go fallow, where the ich parasite is still alive because there are other fish, it's just going to come back.

Yes there are other fish. And yes I am aware of that too. Just seeing if that was an option. Thanks.

My thought was to attempt management before taking everyone out and see how that goes.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Yes there are other fish. And yes I am aware of that too. Just seeing if that was an option. Thanks.

My thought was to attempt management before taking everyone out and see how that goes.

I understand. Sadly the only way to ensure it won't come back is to do the fallow treatment and treat everyone that may have come into contact with it.

 

[Fallguy44]

I understand. Sadly the only way to ensure it won't come back is to do the fallow treatment and treat everyone that may have come into contact with it.

Thank you

 

[HB AL]

If your positive it's just ich, and you don't want to remove all your fish and let the dt go fallow for 3 months, excellent water quality plus feeding quality frozen foods will allow them to fight it off with there immune system naturally.

 

[Crabs McJones]

If your positive it's just ich, and you don't want to remove all your fish and let the dt go fallow for 3 months, excellent water quality plus feeding quality frozen foods will allow them to fight it off with there immune system naturally.

Only problem is that the ich will still be present in the system. So the second he has an event that stresses the fish out and weakens their immune system, he'll be back to square one with ich.

 

[Big G]

Any new fish added to the tank would be exposed to fish that are carriers of the disease.

 

[Maritimer]

Best, as stated, would be to go fallow.

I don't trust "Ich+" to cure the pest, and would _at_minimum_ suggest you use the copper. I still strongly suspect that the tang will begin to show symptoms within days to weeks of reintroduction to your display.

~Bruce