Blue Hippo - Ich - Treating with copper

[Myka]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Just to make sure if there was any surviving kist, the larvaes would die if they ever got out of it while I was raising the salinity, so that they would not attach to the fish.

You could have avoided the chemical treatment simply by leaving them in hypo for a couple more weeks. Personally, the only chemical I use on any regularity is Praziquantel (wormer), and is more important than Ich treatment imo.

[daniella3d]

Well he's in the display for 2 days and no sign of ich yet. I don't know how long I should wait until I know for sure ich is gone? I could not do longer hypo treatment because I am returning to work and won't have time to monitor all this.

prazi might be more important one some fish but if a fish is dying of ich, prazi won't do any good.

Originally Posted by Myka

You could have avoided the chemical treatment simply by leaving them in hypo for a couple more weeks. Personally, the only chemical I use on any regularity is Praziquantel (wormer), and is more important than Ich treatment imo.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Well he's in the display for 2 days and no sign of ich yet. I don't know how long I should wait until I know for sure ich is gone? I could not do longer hypo treatment because I am returning to work and won't have time to monitor all this.

prazi might be more important one some fish but if a fish is dying of ich, prazi won't do any good.

I suppose you have to wait forever...? With fish like Hippos I really don't think you're ever totally safe unless it's a FOWLR and you hypo the whole tank, and never add another thing to the tank.

I have never had a saltwater fish die from Ich, but I have had several die from worms. I dissect all dead fish. Sometimes I can tell what happened, sometimes I can't. A kid's microscope comes in handy.

EDIT: I don't think you actually said what kind of fish you were quarantining...?

[daniella3d]

Same as in this threat, the little ich magnet hippo tang and one clown fish.

The hippo has great appetite and I am feeding him garlic soaked food right now. He's been in the DT for 3 days and no ich. I guess if he's still ok in about a week I can assume he'll be ok unless I introduce something bad.

You never had a fish died from ich but I have read of many fish dying from this parasite. It can be quite serious sometimes.

Originally Posted by Myka

EDIT: I don't think you actually said what kind of fish you were quarantining...?

[Myka]

Well, hopefully it works for you.