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Originally Posted by Lance
Thanks.
You know what really gets to me? My SF Tang has been with me for over a year, living in my 90 gal. One of the reasons I wanted another tank was I felt he needed a bigger home. He wasn't aggressive or anything, I just wanted a bigger tank for him as well as some other larger fish. So I put him in the new larger tank and now I may be killing him. Pi$$es me Off! I sure hope he makes it. If not, I may rethink the whole purpose for this new tank. It was supposed to be all about the fish. (Large swimming area, bare bottom, and big skimmer.) The 90 gal was going to be pretty much all corals and just a few fish. The way I feel right now I may end up with two SPS tanks. At least when I lose a coral I don't feel as bad.
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Man that is rough. I hate to loose fish too. Thats why I have stopped with QT.
The last QT I did was hypo. 6 weeks no fish in the display and fish in 1.008. Fish got ich about 3 weeks after going back to the display. No new fish added. Tried it all over again for 8 weeks and lost my favorite fish in QT this time. Again, still got ich. Never again. I did a ridiculous amounts of reading and found the longest documented case of ich surviving without a host was just over 3 months. Not all strains can do this and I think its rare but who knows what strain is in the tank...there are apparently hundreds.
Some are thought to have a decent immunity to hypo now too. Why not? Everything evolves. Especially hardy parasites like ich.
I am one that believes if this problem is not dealt with from the beginning at wholesalers and collectors holding tanks, it will get out of hand one day to the point the ich parasite will be a "super bug" kind of thing. May get hard to treat.
Its hard to treat already...hypo is not always going to work and copper destroys a tangs gut fauna. I would never copper tangs personally. I think it takes years off their lives.