HEy Folks,
Name is Nick. Well this is the 3rd board I am registered too and I seem to find so many differences of opinions on the same ole subject time and time again... So I say why not try and hear anothers perspective.
Heres the case:
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fowlr- Current Occupants: gold striped maroon, 22" sfe
Well I decided to add another fish and knowing better about
qt-ing I didn't.... I added a mimic tang and well you guessed it...I am assuming it was ich although it didn't stand out on his boddy...more like sprinkles. but not bulging off his body.. by the second day when I was going to attempt a
QT I found him stuck to the overflow dead..yanked him immediately and I have done a 15% water change to avoid any possibility of an ammo spike and continued to monitor what affects if any would hit my maroon. Well he has nothing...visible at least....It's been 2 days now since the tang has been out and I have stil yet to see any affect on the fish..acting the same as usual as wellas the eel but the eel with as thick a coating it has is pretty impervious to any ich..99.9 % of the time.
Now my concern.....IS the ich always going to be in the tank or will it die off since I cannot host... I don't think when people say ich is in the tank forever becase its beneficial that they keep a host alive but how does a parasite have such intelligence to keep that 1 fish alive.. it's simple logic to me that it feeds until that host is dead and to search for another.. If I leave the fish in with no aother additions for about 6 weeks with the use of a uv and 15% water changes (whether they do anything or not other than replacing
trace elements) can it be assumed the cycle was indeed broken?
For future I am going to setup a 15 long
QT and get whatever fish I choose next to place in there and feed them to bring there health up and also give me a chance to view if something will indeed exist and if ich I will hypo.
Thanks guys and sorry if I am rambling in some parts of the story but this is the second time ICH has hit me...first time it wiped out 6 fishes totaling 300 dollars...definitely not pleased about it but again my fault...this time arund again my fault for knowing better but I didn't get nailed that bad.. both times involve a tang.... I love their beauty but hate their sensitivity and fact they are ich magnets.
Thanks again all,
Nick
