Very Tired of dealing with parasites...

wickedfrags · #1 09-17-2008, 02:08 PM

A good read on ick. Dispells some of the myths.

http://www.txinstall.com/ich/ich.htm

GreenSpottedPuffer · #2 09-17-2008, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by wickedfrags.com

A good read on ick. Dispells some of the myths.

http://www.txinstall.com/ich/ich.htm

Yeah good article. About the same as the Reefkeeping ones with a few added points which are good.

I have talked to a bunch of people and really don't believe the 11 months and then ich dies off theory. I guess in that last article it was saying it kind of "slows" down? Not dies off? Someone had told me that they added nothing to a tank for over two years but their tangs would still get ich once in a while. 5 years after that and the tangs still get a bit of ich.

fishoholic · #3 09-17-2008, 07:21 PM

I'm surprised Hypo didn't work. I have used Hypo before in the past and it worked great. Did you QT all of your fish and do hypo on all of them? Four weeks of QT and hypo for all of our fish got rid of the ich in our first set up.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #4 09-17-2008, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

I'm surprised Hypo didn't work. I have used Hypo before in the past and it worked great. Did you QT all of your fish and do hypo on all of them? Four weeks of QT and hypo for all of our fish got rid of the ich in our first set up.

Yup everything for 6 weeks the first time and 8 weeks the second time. 1.008 both time using three different refractometers to make sure.