Originally Posted by rudedog40
LOL. Every post I read on ich, you're the first one that pops up with the same exact questions - "What are you water parameters? You say they are perfect, but we need to SEE what they are." "Go to the Disease forum and read the ich post. Get all your fish in a QT immediately and start hypo."
If someone says all their chemical levels are normal, 99% of the time they understand that means that their ammonia, nitrate, and nitrites are at zero. You treat some of the posters on this board as if they were children and don't understand how to do a simple chemical test.
You are the leader of the 'pro hypo' crusade. You encourage every single person who posts about an ich problem to start hypo immediately. However, I can recall reading numerous posts on people who did hypo, and they come back three or four weeks later saying "My fish still have ich." You place blame on them for not doing the hypo procedure properly, then either have them try it again, or lead them to copper treatment, which seems to be a risky procedure from what I've read about copper. Sorry, but doing hypo and copper may be the defacto procedure for curing ich, but it seems that unless you follow the procedure to a tee, it's just as useless as trying to treat the ich with meds. You all scoff, and say it's nothing to keep the salinity at 1.009 for 3 weeks. Well with the number of failed hypos I've read in the last couple of months, apparently it's not as easy for some people as it is for you. And copper? Don't follow that treatment exactly, and your fish are dead.
Right now, it's been over two months since I treated my blue hippo for ich with Ich Attack and garlic. He's growing every day, and is the first to come to the front of the tank when I show up with food. I've added three other fish since he had ich, and not one of them has had any ich symptoms. If I'm still in this hobby 10 months from now, you'll be the first to know whether I've had any other ich breakouts.
There is a reason that I ask the questions that I do. RD, I am not going to fight with you over this. You see things your way and I have been helping people for awhile and will continue to do so. I do hope that things work out for you, but if they don't then I will be happy to help you as well.
