It seems that us Geezers progressed or advanced past the quarantine, medication, worry debate and found a better way. Eventually these youngun Whippersnappers will get on board and stop losing fish to disease.
But, we were all there. I remember the days of fighting ich no matter what I did. Spots, spots, spots.
There was a time I thought all fish just normally came with spots. I was even thinking of using "Brillo" on them as it was that frustrating. ;Facepalm
But luckily there were no computers, experts or books so we had to use something that used to be used a lot, but not so much any more. Common sense.
WE started looking closely at the fish. I spent many hundreds of hours underwater with them knowing that cell phones were not a thing yet so I know I didn't leave one in my Speedo.
Eventually we were just about able to read their mind.
Of course in those days it was not called ich. It was oodinium and fresh water fish, or bait had ich.
Then it was called something else, then another thing. But by then, we pioneers learned that no matter what they want to call it or how many colorful charts they came up with of their life cycle and how many medications they invented and at what dose, it didn't matter because our fish decided they didn't have time for all that nonsense and just wanted to get on with their life without all this drama.
In time someone invented computers and the very next day, "disease" forums were invented because not everyone figured it out yet. But the fish always knew. And still know.
