Post Addition Treatment

[riceboy]

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.

[Aquattro]

55 views, 8 votes? C'mon, we can do better than that!!

[corpusse]

I'd drain 110 gallons (my tank is a 180) into my 2 barrels, and buy the cheapest closest used tank I could find on kijij for the rest of the water, then grab all my fish and put them in there + my 55g QT Treat them with copper for 30 days and then wait out the remaining 42 days before putting them back.

If this ever did happen I'd also qt all corals for 72 days which is the only thing I'm currently not doing to 100% ensure ich never makes it in.

[daplatapus]

yup, if after what I go through to QT fish it still makes it in, sucks to be me. But there are far worse things to be in there than ich.

[Craigdillman]

Did it once before now that's why I go through good QT methods, first time took me 3 plus hours of "reaqqusacping" to catch the fish after I looked into the tank day after day in denial wondering how I got ich when I never QTed anything and I think I would cry if it somehow got threw my QT set up, BUT if it did it's worth the time cause last time I lost 70% of my fish so a few hours and headache is worth saving idk 700$ worth of fish

That's my 2 cents

[Bblinks]

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.

[jordsyke]

I have ich in my tank, when a new fish is introduced and is stressed it will show signs, once it is comfortable and has gotten used to the many different foods I feed, I find very very few signs of ich. But.... there is still some signs... the fish dont seem bothered though

[christyf5]

I've had ich in my tank since I set it up in 2010. I monitor it, albeit passively (oh hey, fishy #3 has some spots on him, hmm...interesting). I use ick to monitor stress levels in my fish, which is mostly feed related (they're pigs). New additions get quarantined but its not ick I'm concerned about. My lavender tang is a carrier, he has it all the time while it comes and goes on other fish and is never seen on others.

[Proteus]

I voted ignore it. But.... I only house basslets and they seem to be alot more Hardy than fish such as tangs. Also a bb tank. So not sure it it helps disrupt the ich cycle