Thirty years ago in the 1980's when salt tanks became possible as hobby an isolated hospital tank with copper in the water for all new salt water fish for thirty days, people suggested fresh water dips, from the other comments it's possible parasites never completely go away completely and can be introduced with any new live rock, coral, or fish. With that said, you don't have to be a marine biologist, I’m not, what I have is three decades of experience researching best solutions, reading publications, listening more to people who do the research for salt water products. Two guys from CT I knew created Ultra Life company, Ron and Rob, they are still in the game, no longer have tanks at home, in writing to them they still do the research. Anyway, when you take advice from a blog consider how much experience the poster has in the hobby. Young and dumb comes to mind, statements like I worked in a pet store once. On ick I run UV sterilizer, Google it, read about it. Today it’s a cost effective solution to maintain fish heath, it does not impact Coralline Algae growth, only harmful bacteria and ick. You get the same results by running Ozone with a controller; it also kills the free floating parasites. Also, keep in mind the fish with parasites will probably need to be isolated at least in a floating refugium because the other fish sense they are ill and add to the problem. For example, I triggerfish with attack a damsel at the surface gasping for breath; they seem to know unhealthy fish put themselves in danger and act. “Anything” else suggested or done goes back to useless folk tales from people with very little insight or skills, Public Aquariums either change large quantities of salt water directly from the ocean, or run large skimmers with Ozone, with UV Sterilization. These principles came from sewage treatment books from the 1930’s and where not created by the fish industry, public water supplies depend on these principles which also increase the health of your tanks inhabitants.
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shista http:///t/386674/how-to-kill-ick#post_3397676
Hi everyone,, I just had a couple fish die on me during qt from a huge ick outbreak... I was wondering if there was some way to quickly kill ick in my qt since there is nothing in there?? i was thinking of something like a 90% water change of just freshwater for a couple days or something along those lines..... i want to add new fish to the qt with clean water, so they dont get ick all over again
