Thanks Zooid. The ich problem was such as mess that I never want to deal with it again. I thought if you kept the levels low enough the fish would be ok. I had a hippo, clowns, pearl jawfish, wrasps, darts, firefish and they all survived.
I just put some snails in (Copper still .05) and I think some died. I used them as a canary in a coal mine. I don't want to put the starfish back in.
Anyone know what amount will not kill starfish (Yes I know ZERO) but maybe I can't get it to zero but very low.
If I were to use Hyposalinity would I have been able to keep my starfish and shrimp in? Can they take that type of ich treatment? Not a bad option if it removes ich. Sounds better than (Nuke em)
copper treatment.
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Originally Posted by Zooid  I don't know if I'd copper the hospital tank. Some fish are very sensitive to copper. Best thing to do in my opinion is to just quarantine them for a month and keep a close eye on them. If they don't show any sign of ich in that amount of time, then most likely they don't have ich. My blue hippo tang used to have ich and just could not get rid of it. I put all my fish in hyposalinity (1.009) for 6 weeks. At that point I KNEW my tank had no ich and my fish showed no signs of ich. That was 4 months ago, and even my blue hippo has showed NO sign of ich. Whew! |
