Yes ive read that and many other articles on treatment. My issue is i have a 180 gallon display that has 2 large epoxyed rocks. They were assembled from smaller pieces of dryrock. Theres no way to catch and remove all my fish. This is why i asked about the quarantine of new fish. I have quarantined ecery fish in my system but recently after adding a rock with a coral colony on it i had an ich breakout. I lost a couple clowns to it. My tangs pulled through with only getting a few spots. One has kept scratching the sand bed though. I did run the polylab medic treatment for 30 days. I am also looking at getting a uv sterilizer. Only thing is i have to decide how im plumbing it.
My personal opinion is that it is still important to QT incoming fish. My biggest concern would be introducing something like Velvet on top of the ich.
That is hard to answer. It will likely depend on the specific fish and how much aggression it receives. Just like people, some fish have stronger immune systems than others. I would recommend a 2QT setup though. Do an 8 to 10 day copper treatment with a transfer to a new, clean QT to recover and observe for a few days. I feel that is easier on the fish than a full 30 day treatment. It may give them a better chance when exposed to the parasite in your system.
Thanks for that suggestion ,ill try it out. I normally do a mild copper on all fish capable to handle it, run carbon than if theres any question i run the pozi treatment. I keep every fish in qt for 30 days after final treatment. I run carbon and used to transfer 5 gallons a week from the main display to the qt after final treatment. This last step 8 am reconsidering though now.
Ive always qt 'd my fish, like i said i run a copper cycle and then the prozi if they look like they need it. I always kept them in qt a minimum of 30 days. I did not qt my corals, only dipped them. I had gotten a rock with bubble rose anemones, that i didnt dip due to the size of rock and fear of damaging the colony. Within a week of putting it in my display i had an outbreak. Started with the clowns then a slight infection on both the yellow and mimic tang. The clown tang was the first to die followed by all 4 clowns. I ran the polylab as an aid and as of now it appears to have done its job.
Another +1 to this. I’ve tried it in the past, didn’t help. I overdosed significantly every day but I was very unscientific about my approach, admittedly.
