No offense taken, though you ain’t right. I’m not shopping for answers, I’m looking for one. Until I can get one answer and not different experiences, I’d really just be spitballing for a solution. Until I do get real advice from a store I’m not tearing apart my tank, stressing my fish, or pouring chemicals in that kill off my expensive inverts. I’ve dealt with ich many times and have only ever lost one fish. I really wasn’t planning on settling for less ever, it’s just I’m in a situation where I CAN’T quarantine. It’s not a choice. I don’t like shortcuts. I’m glad that you got lucky with your ich outbreak, but I’m not in as fortunate a situation as you were. I know the ich cycle, this is not my first rodeo. Also you can’t eliminate it. It always exists, just multiplies when a fish gets stressed and it’s body temp warms to hosting conditions. So stressing a fish out especially one as timid as firefish would only be helping the parasites. To be frank, this may not even be ich. I’ve seen this in many other tanks, and it goes away after a day without a trace. The bottom line — I know the patience it takes to set up a tank and the speed bumps it can create. I want the best for my pets. Never in my life would I settle for less.
I wonder if the Royal Gramma at your LFS was in a tank with other fish, or connected to other systems with ich-prone fish in them?
