Very Tired of dealing with parasites...

Chad · #1 09-16-2008, 10:46 PM

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 · #2 09-16-2008, 11:38 PM

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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 · #3 09-17-2008, 12:00 AM

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 · #4 09-17-2008, 12:17 AM

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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

robert J · #5 09-17-2008, 12:30 AM

Just remember the trick is can not go more than 55 GPH. Once in a while I get the ich back but with this treatment it always work for me

GreenSpottedPuffer · #6 09-17-2008, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by robert J

Just remember the trick is can not go more than 55 GPH. Once in a while I get the ich back but with this treatment it always work for me

Ok, well I still am not sure I need to add UV when I already have ozone running but if I decide to give it a try, I will remember that. Thanks.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 09-17-2008, 02:49 AM

Well it looks like the most of the ich has already dropped off the puffers again. Neither of them seem stressed at all. Of course all that means is that the ich not on them but all over the tank.

I don't know...seems like each time they get ich it drops off in a day or two. Does that mean anything? In the past I remember it always staying on them for at least a week before dropping off.