"Reel McKoi" wrote in message
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Which I have done ad nauseum..... that's why I was so shocked to see it
appear as it did. Anything that encysted in the gills would still fall
off and turn into hundreds, in days. At least a few of the others would be
susceptible. Apparently not all websites agree.

There are a number of ways of treating ich in freshwater
fish....including meds (half dose with loaches), raising the temp and
adding salt (might make your plants suffer but better than losing the
fish) or the bare tank one which involves moving the fish between tanks
to break the cycle of the free floating stuff which reinfects.....

How would anyone know using this switching method if the ich isn't *again
hidden* in someone's gills??? And the stress alone of chasing and moving
the fish daily is more stress than anything else.

I recently had an Ich outbreak too after moving some fish out of quarantine
into two different tanks. There was no sign of the Ich while in quarantine
(3 weeks), but it struck immediately after moving the fish. I lost all the
Clowns I moved to the one tank and one of the Yoyos I moved to another tank.
I attribute the losses more to a crappy quarantine than the Ich outbreak. I
treated with QuickCure at half the dose because of the Tetras/Loaches. The
one tank cleared up right away and the existing residents never did contract
the Ich, I'm still treating the other tank (precaution) as the Ich stayed
with one Barb for almost a week.

I read a lot about Ich too and there is a lot of conflicting info. But I
don't see how you can be sure it's absolutely gone no matter how long you
treat. How can you know that the free swimmers haven't hatched between doses
of medication and attached to a fish based on their sheer numbers. If they
were in the gills you would never know.

I think my next quarantine will get a precautionary dose of QuickCure. The
"fish guy" at the LFS actually recommended it when I asked, but I did not
want to over medicate.