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Originally Posted by EmilyB
If the fish is eating well, I would recommend garlic and some real water quality control. Don't mess with crap meds in your tank, if you feel you need to treat the fish do so in a hospital tank, with proven methods.
JMO.
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Very well said Deb! I completely agree.
Another note I wanted to add.....
I used to do fresh water dips myself but it is EXTREMELY stressful to the fish (the chase, capture, netting, expose to air) and ONLY gets rid of very little spec's of ich that are ONLY the really mature ich (very few) and ready to fall off to multiply in sand bed, although not always affective & too many variables (i.e time of dip, water quality, temp, the live cycle of parasite). All in all freshwater dips DO defeat the purpose as your going to add fish right back to you infected tank right? Isn't that right? Make sense now? And that infected fish acting as a host for any one speckle of parasite will only drop in 5-7days in sand to reproduce to help it to infect the fish again or your other fish.
Also I don't believe in netting any fish either. PLEASE NO NETS! If your going to continue to do dips then try to coach the fish with a net underwater to a underwater cup in tank and then scoop up with water and move over to your freshwater, using minimal stress & very little time exposed to air. Also with netting, Clowns tend to stick to netting (loss of scales, scratches to eye, to name a few) and its extremely stressful to the fish making it harder for the fish to fight ich.
But again as others stated, Water quality key, less stress with tank & fish and end result when all fish are infected is usually treatment in hospital tank. Noting that time is of the essence and understanding the disease & its cycle is also crucial to understanding and controlling/remove parasites infestation.
Best of luck. *HUGS*
