justanotherfishhead
Lisa
Even though I used a quarantine tank for all my fish, I think I have ich now. My royal gramma is scratching himself on rocks and has some tiny white spots. I don't see anything on the other fish (but I know they are still infected). When I did QT none of my fish had any symptoms for 4 weeks before I put them in my tank. But I did not use any prevention treatment. I read that if a fish has any disease it will appear within 4 weeks QT. But I guess that's not true, and I should have used copper in the QT even though they all looked healthy.
So I know they can recover even if I don't do anything. But I'm probably going to upgrade to a 125 soon and I'm thinking that might be a good time to try to get rid of the ich. If I move my live rocks over to the new tank and let it sit with no fish (just feeding invertebrates of course) for 8 weeks, the ich will be gone and I can put the current fish through 4 week quarantines (with copper treatment this time) before they go into the new tank. Think this is a good idea? Or just forget it as long as the fish are still eating well and otherwise healthy? Then I guess there wouldn't be any point QTing new fish, since there's already ich in the tank? But they could have other diseases so it's probably still a good idea?
So I know they can recover even if I don't do anything. But I'm probably going to upgrade to a 125 soon and I'm thinking that might be a good time to try to get rid of the ich. If I move my live rocks over to the new tank and let it sit with no fish (just feeding invertebrates of course) for 8 weeks, the ich will be gone and I can put the current fish through 4 week quarantines (with copper treatment this time) before they go into the new tank. Think this is a good idea? Or just forget it as long as the fish are still eating well and otherwise healthy? Then I guess there wouldn't be any point QTing new fish, since there's already ich in the tank? But they could have other diseases so it's probably still a good idea?