Ick

[Frenette24]

Need help with what to use to treat it in reet

 

[Saltydoug]

Wrong part of the forums
However i believe the only way to completely get rid of ich is to leave your tank fallow for 10 weeks and treat your fish using the tank transfer method, hyposalinity, or even copper in a seperate tank (s)

 

[AlbertG]

Hmmn becarefull . There its kick ick wich i have a huge bottle but i dont think i really do mutch .
If your fish are eating i keep feeding then a lot as long as they eat they eat they b fine

 

[AlbertG]

There is multiple options to fight ick but they all really anoying if removing your fish from your tank its not a option i will just wwited out . Sometimes last a long time but sometimes can b gone quick

 

[Frenette24]

Thanks for the advice

 

[mnavick]

Moved to proper Forum.

Once Ich is in your tank with fish as a host it will always be present. The fish may not show symptoms but it will always be there.
What Saltydoug mentioned are the ONLY known ways of eradicating.Kick Ich does not work and may seem to have but the fish are just not displaying symptoms. Once stressed it will re-appear.
Other alternative to treating is to "manage": keep well feed and minimalize stress.

 

[Frenette24]

Thanks so much I'll take any advice sorry for putting it in wrong forum

 

[Andy V]

The only proper way to fix this problem would be to take every fish out for 11 weeks (76 days is the longest known period where Ich survived without a host). Then you would have to treat the fish. In my opinion the best and easiest way is to use Cupramine in a QT. This is better than older forms of copper and I successfully treated several fish with Ich using it, and they are still alive several years later.

I used to gamble on not QT'ing before adding to my display and it worked for five years...until it didn't. Trust me, the hassle of removing all of your fish is much worse than proper QT and prophylactic treatment. I've never had Ich since.

Anyone that says Ich is present in every tank is flat out wrong. Nobody has said so thus far in this thread, but it's inevitable that someone will. And again, they are flat out wrong. There's a multi-billion dollar aquaculture industry outside of the hobby that has funded lots of scientific studies on this topic. Fish are the host. No host for the parasite = eventually the parasite dies.

I disagree with the method of "managing the ich" for a few reasons:

1) I don't believe that it's ok to let a living creature intentionally suffer for your convenience.
2) Many of the fish are going to die without treatment in a short time even if some live longer.
3) I don't believe "management" works. Many people will have fish live for several months and call this a success. These people have fish that die after a year or so and call this successful when these fish could live 10-20 years. We all lose fish for one reason or another, but only when you've successfully kept fish for five years or more can you be considered successful, in my view.
4) You can never introduce another fish into your tank without knowingly, intentionally infecting it.

 

[JohnK]

I agree on all points ^, except that I prefer the "tank transfer method" over cupramine.

 

[jah-hoeva]

^^^I second that statement.