Fighting Ich Sucks If You Can't Catch Fish

[daniella3d]

Until one day you will get marine velvet and wipe all your fish gone bye bye.

I cannot understand how someone can manage to kill a fish in quarantine...The QT must be setup so that it is comfortable for the fish and water quality must remain good. Not hard at all to do with a tank and some liverock.

I never lost a single fish in quarantine and I quarantine all my fish no exception.

I had a cleaner wrasse for 2 months in QT, as well as a copperband butterfly and a leopard wrasse...(on different occasions) those are not easy fish yet they went through quarantine easily. Some needed treatment for parasites, others were just on observation and preventive treatment with Paraguard and prazipro.

I took this time to make sure they were healthy and eating well.

How can a fish die in quarantine and would not die in the main tank? that either mean that the QT is not setup properly or the fish would have died anyway because it is too sick.

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

I killed more fish in qt than I've lost to ich so I don't qt my fish. It is playing with fire as there are more serious diseases that will wipe out your tank by introducing a sick fish to your dt. Some will tell you it's a matter of time and it will happen.

I chose the garlic and selcon combo myself and have not lost anyone yet. I used herbtana once, didn't seem to do anything.

Chasing a sick fish will stress it and it's tank mates and make its recovery that much tougher. if you are going to put in a hospital tank to treat, you'll need to put all fish in as well and leave the dt fallow for a min 6-8 weeks to rid the ich from the tank. Treating one fish then returning is pointless as ich will still be in your tank.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do