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Old 06-23-2005, 05:48 PM
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If there are spots within 24 hours of introduction, and none on the established fish (and none for several weeks) is there not a chance that the new fish came with the ich? Not disputing whether ich was present or not these last 6-8 weeks, but it seems more plausible to me that the new fish may have been carrying too. After all, they just went through the stress of capture, relocation, and so on, so why would we assume that they came ich-free to begin with?

I think treatment needs to be tempered with the severity of the ich. I don't know. I guess I've been mostly lucky in this respect, but any time I've introduced a new fish that subsequently shown a few scattered spots, eventually overcame them on their own, given good water quality, feeding with garlic supplemented, and just overall common sense on what's good to do and what's not good to do. Now, a bad infestation is obviously not something that can be left to blind hopefulness, of course, but for me, that's what worked.
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