Ich ick season?

[ourcoralreef]

Have many friends with ich
i started a similar thread on a different forum about a year ago seems like many people were having ich the same time a year ago as well

Yes i know people get it all year long but im thinking this is from the wild mass breakout infecting anyone thats buying fish now

How many people currently have ich

What do you do to treat and avoid ich


Quarantine?
Feed well? (treat it like a cold)
Buy from a store that....

Cleaner wrasse
Neon goby
Cleaner shrimp

Garlic?
Selcon?
Copper?
Hypo salinity?
Melafix?
Ich attack?

Hope & Pray?

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

I QT with GC for flukes, GC fed for internal parasites, worms, and copper power for ich/velvet.

 

[AcroNem]

TLDR: properly quarantine everything, and treat every fish or animal like it's covered in parasites and disease, because they usually are.

Long ranty version.
To avoid Cryptocaryon (Ichthyophthirius is a freshwater parasite) as well as all other parasites, proper quarantine and prophylactic treatment is necessary. Copper and formalin are extremely effective at killing parasites. Although other drugs work well too, those are my usual two I'll start with depending on what I'm running through QT. I'll sometimes run another treatment of Metronidazole at the end. Some people will use the garlic, hypo, herbal, UV or observation route but in professional quarantine they're considered useless methods of treatment and are not involved in proper/ strict quarantine. Standard quarantine (on any animal) is at least 30 days, and with fishes 21 days or more of that is a treatment period. After that you can observe for as long as you'd like, but if a fish hasn't been treated it's not clean. I've done a lot of skin scrapes and gill clips on newly arrived fish (standard protocol to check under a microscope) and every single wild fish, even from wholesalers who have rough QT, was infected with something.

 

[HotRocks]

I QT all fish and treat for pretty much everything prophylactically.

 

[ourcoralreef]

I QT all fish and treat for pretty much everything prophylactically.

What are your prophylactic methods of treatment

 

[HotRocks]

What are your prophylactic methods of treatment

This thread explains it in much detail. It is ever changing so I will soon update it with some amendments.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-current-qt-process.483371/unread