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Old 07-18-2014, 04:17 AM
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Originally Posted by lemon604 View Post
get a cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrass. They will eat the ick off your fish.
Cleaner shrimp and wrasse cant "eat" the ich off fish IMHO. once ich has chosen a fish as host, it is not visible. The parasite is microscopic. What you see on the fish is a cyst the fish's body forms to isolate parasite from body. Once parasite matures it drops to substrate and the cycle begins.
They do however do a great job eliminating many other types of stray parasite that happens to enter water column.
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