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Ignore it and hope it goes away 26 81.25%
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Old 02-17-2015, 01:54 PM
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You just added a fish. You find tomorrow that it has ich. Are you inclined to leave it alone and hope it goes away, or are you breaking out the treatment system (QT, Tank Transfer, etc) and leaving the display fallow for 3 months?
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Old 02-17-2015, 02:29 PM
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Personally, while I'm now inclined to QT my fish, should I wake up and find ich in my tank, I'm going back to bed and will look again tomorrow. Repeat as necessary
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Well, if it is in your DT tank, unless you are able to easily remove your fish and have a big enough QT, you don't have much choice but to leave them and hope the ich subsides. Not sure if this is proven, but have read that after 11 months and no new strain introductions, the ich will out cycle itself and die.
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That's the thing. Easily catching all the fish in a reef is never going to happen. With my rock work, even draining won't let me grab everyone. If I did, then I have to set up a large enough tank in the kitchen for 3 months and maintain it. And buy wife lots of presents.
I currently have a QT setup in the kitchen and with my daughter's bday party coming this weekend, I'm the least popular member of the household.

Once it comes down, it's not going back up.

I'm predicting that this poll shows this is by far the most popular vote..
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I usually just do a freshwater dip before I throw the fish into display. and if there are signs of ick I will crush some garlic and mix it in with the food and feed. Usually goes away in 2 days.
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55 views, 8 votes? C'mon, we can do better than that!!
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No QT for me. The amount of effort goes into setting up a QT and draining your tank to catch the fish seems hardly worth it. Garlic with selcom and feed the crap out of the fish is my approach.

I thought you enjoyed setting up quarantine tanks and then taking them down and setting them back up a week later? Lol
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I thought you enjoyed setting up quarantine tanks and then taking them down and setting them back up a week later? Lol
and that's why I don't have my own QT....
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Don't truly ignore but try and keep good environment and healthy as possible and well fed , my powder blues life story once and a while
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Would have guessed more than 25 reefers kept fish here.
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