Very Tired of dealing with parasites...

[Aquattro]

Ya, that's weird. My temp hit 90 over a couple of days, no ich for me. Other than getting the fish home with ich, I've never had it pop up. Maybe something else you haven't considered? Electrical shorts, etc?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Ya, that's weird. My temp hit 90 over a couple of days, no ich for me. Other than getting the fish home with ich, I've never had it pop up. Maybe something else you haven't considered? Electrical shorts, etc?

I have checked that too

I have everything on GFCI, so if there was stray current, it would shut down. Especially everytime I put my hands in the tank.

I just can't figure it out. I think all the "wasted" time QTing is what has really discouraged me. About 4 months for most of the fish. Plus I have been still QTing the last few new additions even though ich is already in the tank. Just didn't want to make it worse. Amazingly the rabbitfish has never had it. The Niger did for a day but otherwise nothing I can see. The coral Beauty none either. Its really just the puffers and I see the damsels flashing a lot too.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

It kind of makes me miss freshwater where I never QT'd and never once had any disease in all the years I had freshwater. Not to mention how much cheaper it is. Feels like Im paying so much money just to keep sick fish.

[Chad]

Maybe find a friend who has some spare moments every day to help you with your QT? Place a few in different peoples care.. then in a month and a half or so bring them back home to your tank. Where by this time the ich should have cycled out.

The QT would need to be hypo, so your QT babysitters need to have the ability to maintain that.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Chad

Maybe find a friend who has some spare moments every day to help you with your QT? Place a few in different peoples care.. then in a month and a half or so bring them back home to your tank. Where by this time the ich should have cycled out.

The QT would need to be hypo, so your QT babysitters need to have the ability to maintain that.

Yeah I had thought of something like this but I don't want to ask people to do this even for pay. Its a lot of responsibility. And if anything happened to them during QT I wouldn't want someone else to feel really guilty.

If I do decide to QT, I will try to QT them myself. I think if I set up my ozone in the QT then I can keep the water quality up. It would be crowded but Im not as concerned about that as I am about water quality.

[robert J]

Just need to set up an UV Sterilizer (more than 30W) with 55 GPH only, ich will be gone in 2 weeks. After that you still need to run for another month or so to make sure ich is gone forever. It worked for me, I never used any medication or quarantine.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by robert J

Just need to set up an UV Sterilizer (more than 30W) with 55 GPH only, ich will be gone in 2 weeks. After that you still need to run for another month or so to make sure ich is gone forever. It worked for me, I never used any medication or quarantine.

Thats no different than using ozone though and actually ozone should be way more efficient than UV. I could give it a shot (and thanks for the thought) but with ozone already running, I don't really see the point. I do think ozone is the reason the ich is not as bad as it could be. The problem with both ozone and UV is that ich is that they both only kill what passes through them and Ich does not stay in its free swimming stage very long.

It may be worth a shot though. It can't hurt anything. But if I do decide to keep this tank up, I am going to just go ahead and QT them once again. Maybe for 10 weeks this time! Apparently 8 was not enough