ok...the stage at which it was showing on the tang if it was in fact ich was in the trophont stage.... now...this fish died on me Monday......
Ok I cannot perform a hypo at this time because I will be out of town for 3 days at the end of the month and definitely cannoit rely on the caretaker to look over the
QT in my absence.....
Now my question is if I did decide to wing it with my clownfish and he makes it past 30-40 days in the display tank... can I assume the parasite is erradicated? or even after 72 days for that matter??? I ask because these tanks that are reported to have fought off ich and fish are not affected after months on in one would assume with the life cycle of ich that the reproduction within the tank would be so large in numbers that fish no matter how strong would succumb....
It's kinda why I am hesitant to hypo my clown fish... I do plan to
qt every and all future purchases hands down... i can't deal with this crap anymore but it doesn't make sense to me when the ich cycle shoudl easily decimate a tank if not 1 month by the 3rd month.....
my tanks temp ranges with gradual fluctuations throughout the day between 80-82 max...... this should easily speed up the process and if its in fact ICh should infect my clown no matter how strong he/she is. I am not going to add anymore fish as to prove this because with just 1 fish in the tank (eel will not be affected with the slimecoat being so thick) that my clown would be affected at least by the end of one month...
Now....... if it was velvet which killed my tang....died in 48 hours remember which is about the right timeline for velvet to kill the infected fish iis it possible it wasn't able to host on my clown and be considered dead?? I aks because velvets lifecycle without a host is VERY short from what I have read.
Thanks for any and all who take the time to read and respond.
Nick
