Do you run UV sterilization?

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by untamed

My achillies tang went through about the same sequence of attack/recovery as his...but I don't have a UV sterilizer. Obviously, his running of UV didn't prevent the ick attack in the first place. This makes me wonder if the UV is at all effective against ick.

unless ....... in the first place the tang had already acquired the ick from the store it was purchased from.
I run an 80W UV 24/7 on my tanks.

[untamed]

Originally Posted by Chin_Lee

unless ....... in the first place the tang had already acquired the ick from the store it was purchased from.
I run an 80W UV 24/7 on my tanks.

Let us know if the ick returns to your Achillies or not. In my tank, without UV, it comes and goes...never goes completely away. If you can eliminate it completely, that's a real testimony for UV.

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by untamed

Let us know if the ick returns to your Achillies or not. In my tank, without UV, it comes and goes...never goes completely away. If you can eliminate it completely, that's a real testimony for UV.

i run ozone too so unfortunately it will not give UV all the credit. No ick return yet but its only been a short time.