how long can ich be on a fish b4 it shows up?

[drea]

how long can ich be on a fish b4 it shows up?
meaning, if i don't hypo in my qt tank, but keep the salt at 1.025..... and keep the fish in there for a good 6 weeks, is there a chance it will show up later on? or is hypoing the best way to go?

 

[hawthorn]

hypo is the way to go otherwise it will just come back and eventually kill your fish

 

[unleashed]

hypo is not a 100% cure i just slows it down your tank will still have the ick.only true cure for ich is a copper treatment on the fish remove the fish from the main tank and let the paresite run its life course without a host from fish.basicly the ich will starve to death and this proccess takes min of 30 days but if you dont treat the ick on the fish fully you will end up reintroducing it back to your tank.not only is hypo not 100% cure it is very stressful to your fish .if you have inverts and or corals you cannot hypo the main tank at all.these animals require spacific sg

 

[drea]

weird.............. i hypoed 6 fish for like 8 weeks, they have no ich and everything has been great... i'm gonna stick to hypoing everything............
and i hear copper is VERY bad for fish.... idk

 

[peter1215]

Originally Posted by drea
weird.............. i hypoed 6 fish for like 8 weeks, they have no ich and everything has been great... i'm gonna stick to hypoing everything............
and i hear copper is VERY bad for fish.... idk
did you keep the fish in the main tank or a quarantine?

 

[drea]

well all of them had it, so i took out my 100 lbs of lr, all my inverts too, took me less than an hr... and was well worth it.. get a huge tub from some where, add a heater, nd powerhead... done.... its sux, but now my main tank is beautiful, w/ no worries.....