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mygatt

mygatt

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I have heard anywhere from 6 weeks to 9 months - OUCH, unfortunatley - The nine month part is because the ich can go into a hibernation type mode? Hopefully someone else can explain it a little better then me.
 
isaac

isaac

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I just lost all my fish, golden flake angel, mistery wrase, perperl tung etc.
I am now waiting 21 day for the ice peresite to be gone, with the UV working.
It take 21 days to finish with the ice cycle to go.
 
ophiura

ophiura

Active Member
On average I would go with 6 weeks.
But if you do not QT all your new fish with a full course of hypo or copper treatment, then you've just reintroduced the parasite anyway...
 
fish1031

fish1031

Active Member
well
here is wha happened
i was out of town for a week and had 3 fish in my 29g QT
one died and the person feeding my fish did not take the dead fish out
i came home and the 180 levels were perfect and the 29g was horrible!
so i took my 2 fish and put them in my DT
 
fish1031

fish1031

Active Member
Ahh so many tanks it is my 55g
it had fish in it for only 2 1/2 days after i noticed ick develping on the fish
now they are all doing better treated in the QT again
do i still have to wait 6 weeks because there was only ick for 2 days
 
fish1031

fish1031

Active Member
well what I did was took out the LR and put it in a 10g with powerheads w/ DT water
then i took out about 15 more gallons of water and put treated fresh water in to lower the salinity
So now the DT has no fish and a spec grav of 1.019- i though it would help kill the ick
i will wait about 4 weeks now???
 
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