ICH is a parasite that is easily avoided? Lies...

rad

rad

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So I have a 100g tank with crappy everything. at least 100 lbs of live rock, 20 long sump full of LR rubble, no skimmer, no filter pads and about 80 lbs of sand. I recently added new fish to my tank, but they are from other tanks where no ich is present and the fish have been there for a while. When I did this there was some aggression from the other tank mates already in the tank and so I changed all the rocks around yesterday. Now today I notice that my blue hippo has ich. %&#@! The stock list is: Flame angel, blue angel, purple psuedo, starry blenny, green coris wrasse, gold stripe maroon clown, and the hippo. My nitrates are high @ 40, I just had a fish die because he got wedged in the rocks so thats the reason those are so high. I am currently doing a series of small water changes to bring those down.
But my point being, none of my other fish have ich, I run an ich free environment at my home and yet my fish has ich some how.
And just today I was talking to a guy who has been keeping fish forever, and he was talking about how his Imperator got ich because it decided it didnt like any of its tank mates. He had to sell off a majority of his livestock to keep any sort of sanity in his 200g then it died and he hadnt added anything in forever. But thats my beef. How was your day?
 
florida joe

florida joe

Well-Known Member
Rad you are rather lucky I am the first person to post a response in, as I am one of the more diplomatic people on the boards so let me just start by saying. Tell your friend to get his head out of his tank. Anyone that tells you that his fish got ick because he did not like his tank mates needs to check his mental parameters. Im my opinion of course. Further more His fish was infected because ick was present. Now you say you have a ick free tank that being said if you have no ick YOU HAVE NO ICK it is possible your fish have a partial immunity to ick and you tank is in a status quo no major out brakes but not ick free. Are you absolutely sure its ick can you post pics. In any event rest assured the good people on these boards would do their best to get you through this
And a side note to Beth I am apologizing in advance
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by rad
http:///forum/post/2555287
but they are from other tanks where no ich is present and the fish have been there for a while.?
Maybe not visibly present when you looked.
Sorry to hear about your day though. That sucks! An ick free environment has been something I have thus far been able to achieve. Now I am buying a whole new stock of fish and I am scared to death. I feel for ya.
 
1journeyman

1journeyman

Active Member
Ich is an external parasite.
Unless you believe in spontaneous generation you must admit it comes from somewhere...
This story is a great example of how Ich gets promoted to mythical status. An aquarist does not practice QT, doesn't have an Ich outbreak for a length of time, then suddenly has an outbreak and assumes the Ich suddenly appeared in the tank.
This is not what has occured! What actually has happened is the Ich has been slowly munching on the aquarist's fish for months. Conditions changed and the Ich population exploded. Nothing more.
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by rad
http:///forum/post/2555287
So I have a 100g tank with crappy everything. at least 100 lbs of live rock, 20 long sump full of LR rubble, no skimmer, no filter pads and about 80 lbs of sand. I recently added new fish to my tank, but they are from other tanks where no ich is present and the fish have been there for a while. When I did this there was some aggression from the other tank mates already in the tank and so I changed all the rocks around yesterday. Now today I notice that my blue hippo has ich. %&#@! The stock list is: Flame angel, blue angel, purple psuedo, starry blenny, green coris wrasse, gold stripe maroon clown, and the hippo. My nitrates are high @ 40, I just had a fish die because he got wedged in the rocks so thats the reason those are so high. I am currently doing a series of small water changes to bring those down.
But my point being, none of my other fish have ich, I run an ich free environment at my home and yet my fish has ich some how.
And just today I was talking to a guy who has been keeping fish forever, and he was talking about how his Imperator got ich because it decided it didnt like any of its tank mates. He had to sell off a majority of his livestock to keep any sort of sanity in his 200g then it died and he hadnt added anything in forever. But thats my beef. How was your day?
How do you know that the fish in the other guys tank were ich free? To be certain, you would have to know absolutely everything about that person's tank and visit daily, with a magnifying glass, for months. If you did not have ich in your tank before then it is pretty safe to assume where the ich came from. Ich is a parasite, it does not magically appear, nor do fish get it because they "decide" that they don't like their tank mates. Now that ich is in your tank, what are you going to do about it? I assume that you have a quarantine tank. Will they all fit in there?
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by florida joe
http:///forum/post/2556062
Sir Q can I kind of sort of think you almost agree with my post
I almost quoted this
as I am one of the more diplomatic people on the boards
above just to put this
after it, but I wanted to be nice

Yes, I do agree with you on this
 
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