On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:54:38 GMT, Altum
wrote:


Supposedly, one of the ways of treating ich without medicine is to
transfer the fish from tank to tank, moving them daily. As they are
shed the cysts are left behind, at the bottom of the tank. The
procedure is to remove all the fish to the first QT tank at 80F. After
a day, you move them to a second warmed QT and sterilize the first. The
next day, you move the fish to the clean tank and disinfect the other.
You're supposed to move the fish back and forth for seven days and then
they can go home.

I've never tried it because my QT tank is usually not big enough for all
the fish in my display tank. It also sounds stressful for both me and
the fish. And somehow you'd have to try to keep the main tank filter
alive with ammonia.

I've never tried it either, because I never heard of it until a couple
of weeks ago right here, where it took about a dozen patient writers
to explain it to me. The multiple bucket method. I envision doing it
with multiple 5 gallon white buckets with the Tru Value Hardware logo
on the sides, of which I seem to have an endless supply. It looks like
work for me, stress for the fish, drinking stations for the dogs and
entertainment for the cats. This is one of those aquarium treatments
where I am perfectly happy with the chemical approach, to heck with
the all natural solution.


-- Mister Gardener