petjunkie
Active Member
Kick-ich and most neds like that are usually designed to kill one life phase of ick which depending on your fish and water quality may be enough to allow them to develop immunities and live with it, the original poster stated when adding new fish ich reappeared and PaulB on -- stated new fish to his tank always show a few spots and them recover, probably due to high water quality and low stress.
However I would think in a new tank with a new hobbyist this would be a disaster because the tank is less stable, maybe the hobbyist does drastic changes trying to fix it and the fish are new and stressed. So yes maybe under the right cirmcumstances over the counter meds will fix it for a while but in reality your fish still have the ich parasite, quarentining every fish and hypo on any that have ich would lead to no ich ever in your tank which seems like a better plan to me I guess. The mods and other posters helping are merely trying to solve the problem, instead of making it less. However it seems most people with ich problems don't have a qt (really!) and the risk is higher of it being uncycled and small but I wouldn't advocate putting meds in the display tank either. Makes it difficult to treat the fish correctly either way but again all could have been prevented.
However I would think in a new tank with a new hobbyist this would be a disaster because the tank is less stable, maybe the hobbyist does drastic changes trying to fix it and the fish are new and stressed. So yes maybe under the right cirmcumstances over the counter meds will fix it for a while but in reality your fish still have the ich parasite, quarentining every fish and hypo on any that have ich would lead to no ich ever in your tank which seems like a better plan to me I guess. The mods and other posters helping are merely trying to solve the problem, instead of making it less. However it seems most people with ich problems don't have a qt (really!) and the risk is higher of it being uncycled and small but I wouldn't advocate putting meds in the display tank either. Makes it difficult to treat the fish correctly either way but again all could have been prevented.