will i havent gotten much responses on it,,,and what you have said,,,has cleared it up to a tee,,,,which i do truely appreciate. i have read so much on this message board when someone gets ich,,,everyones is like take your lr down,put him in a qt tank,,,everyone just gets so dramatic,,,i havent seen or read where someone says ok, lets try it this way first,,like you said up there ,,, have you had any tempature swings,water parameters,ph, etc..etc..change,,if so lets go ahead and just keep an eye on the fish to make sure that he is still eating ,,and he if he is not then its time to go to the next step, and do a qt on him,,and possibly the others too.....now its possible that i have missed someone talking like this,,cause i dont read all the threads,,,i just wanted everyones thought on this account...i have a hippo tang, and he got ich,,,and from reading on this site,,i freaked out, due to that fact that i just started my aquarium back in july so i am really new at this,,so i called the guy that takes care of my aquarium i told him that my tang has ich we need to do something quickly cause i am going to loose everything,,,the first thing he asked me if there has been any tempature swings on the tank,,,i told him that my tempature said 84 and he told me that is probably the reason,,,he said just keep an eye on him make sure he is still eating,,,if not then he would come over and bring me a qt tank to get this under control....ok,,,i will stop at that,,,, i am just trying to learn and get everyones input ,, on this,,,thanks ,,,have a great day.....be nice....