ich help

George · #1 03-25-2013, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by mikepclo

...Just seems like a flaw in the life cycle theory...

Which part of the life cycle of marine ich seems flaw to you?

mikepclo · #2 03-25-2013, 11:57 PM

12 weeks without fish in DT and ich still came back without new livestock added. So flaw could be from any part of the life stages. So from my personal experience there seems to be a flaw somewhere. Maybe different strains? But 12 weeks didn't eradicate them.

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Originally Posted by George

Which part of the life cycle of marine ich seems flaw to you?

globaldesigns · #3 03-26-2013, 12:01 AM

As others stated, just ride it out. If the fish are healthy, they will survive. Just feed them good food and keep the tank params and water quality good.

daniella3d · #4 03-26-2013, 01:30 AM

How did you treat your fish for ick? if you did not do an appropriate treatment and simply removed them and put them in QT without treatment, then put them back into the tank, surely enough the ick would be back.

If you did treat them, maybe the treatment was not enough to kill it.

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Originally Posted by mikepclo

12 weeks without fish in DT and ich still came back without new livestock added. So flaw could be from any part of the life stages. So from my personal experience there seems to be a flaw somewhere. Maybe different strains? But 12 weeks didn't eradicate them.

mikepclo · #5 03-26-2013, 03:22 PM

Treated with copper and and no sign of ich prior to returning to DT tank. But still showed up a month or 2 after returning to DT.

scubadawg · #6 03-26-2013, 03:55 PM

Lost a kole tang this morning from ich, was not doing very in dt, move him into qt, died in qt, hoping my chevron survives this ich bout in the dt

scubadawg · #7 03-26-2013, 09:18 PM

Lost my powder brown tang this morning

kien · #8 03-26-2013, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by scubadawg

Lost my powder brown tang this morning

that appears to be a very quick succession of deaths! Sorry to hear about them.. It's possible that it isn't ich though. Marine Velvet for example traditionally kills fish much much quicker than Ich can, yet can appear like ich with white spots on the fish.

daniella3d · #9 03-27-2013, 04:31 AM

Amazing. That really not typical though.

Is it me or the ick parasites are getting stronger and meaner, more resistant?

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Originally Posted by mikepclo

Treated with copper and and no sign of ich prior to returning to DT tank. But still showed up a month or 2 after returning to DT.

scubadawg · #10 03-28-2013, 02:58 PM

Lost my Flame angle and Chevron tang this morning