HELP....GSP looks bad

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[quote=“DamnPepShrimp, post:59, topic:589”]
Ich can definitely survive beyond 10 weeks without a host. It has already been proven[/quote]

Sources, sources, where are the sources? And as far as the people who have left their tank fallow who were they? People make mistakes. Perhaps they checked the salinity in there fish system and then there fishless display with the same pipette and transfered some of the parasite over. Hard to say.

Really my life is too busy and have never removed my corals from my qt tanks exactly at 8 weeks. Often times it gets to be 12 weeks before I get around to it.

Ian glad you mentioned that. My fish go through hyposalinity. Not sure if I mentioned that in this thread as I don’t want to bring it up every single time to bore the people who have read it, but there are always new people that might be reading this and trying to follow along.

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I’ll have to search for the threads/sources again, I don’t keep everything I read on tap :slight_smile: but from what I gathered, there were two (maybe more) strand types of ich, one lasted a long time and was hard to get rid of. You never know what kind we have, but people have kept there tanks fallow for 10-12 weeks and still got ich after fish were in copper for 4+ weeks. I am not saying all ich will survive 12 weeks, but there is a chance that some may live that long. Basically, there is no guarantee. You could easily contaminate the tank by cross contamination (ie: using buckets/nets etc from a different system). I think the best thing to do is have a healthy tank, stress free as possible (no bullies, too small of a tank etc) feed a varied diet w/garlic and vitamins, and keep up on your water quality. Most fish can fight off ich on their own, I mainly QT for velvet, flukes and other parasites (mainly internal/worms etc). Ich isn’t something to really lose sleep over, to me atleast.

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[quote=“DamnPepShrimp, post:62, topic:589”]
I mainly QT for velvet, flukes and other parasites (mainly internal/worms etc).[/quote]

What sort of syptoms do you look for if you are QTing for these items? Or do you mean that you treat the fish with something, like fresh water dips, to attempt to remove such possible pests? Just nosy and would like to share info with the general forum.

[quote=“DamnPepShrimp, post:62, topic:589”]
Most fish can fight off ich on their own[/quote]
Until the inevitable event that something wrong happens. In my opinion old tank sydrom will take hold given an extended ammount of time. I avoid it as much as possible trying to build back ups into my system with out making them too complicated.(like using two heaters and two power heads incase one craps out) To me the fact that my fish have the abillity to withstand temp extremes is worth it.

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I usually don’t look for symptoms, the human eye can only see so much. I rather treat as if the fish coming in has everything wrong with it. You can’t see internal worms etc (obviously). I usually start the prazipro treatment first, almost immediately since that isn’t really hard on the fish. Then once the fish is eating properly, I will start the copper treatment.

I agree that you should try and avoid introducing ich into your tank at all cost. Having back up heaters, especially battery back ups when the power goes out, etc etc. My fish can take some temp swings as well, even when the power goes out, they all seem fine and have never seen any ich (although I know it is in my system).