Does ich spread on its own?

[Rich-n-poor]

ick is a parasite that is highly contagious. The white spots that you see are the mature parasite this will drop off and produce roughly 1000 daughter cells which will then reinfect this fish and most likely every fish in your tank

garlic is the treatment i see most often on this board I'll keep my own treatment suggestions to myself since i dont feel like being flamed right now

HTH

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Honda Vamos

 

[Anonymous]

If the other fish in the tank are not stressed, will they be fine when another in the tank has ich? Wouldn't more of the disease just attach itself to the weak fish and no effect the healthy non-stressed ones?

Any info is appreciated.

Peace,

Chip

[ October 11, 2001: Message edited by: marillion ]

 

[ZenDogg]

Hi Chip,

Evacuate the infected fish to a quarntine tank. I just recently got back into the hobby after a three year hiatus, but I do know for a fact that ick is highly contagious and can wipe out your fish population very quickly.

I'm not sure if there's been breakthroughs in ick treatment in reef tanks over the past 3 years. In the past we'd have to evacuate all the fish into a treatment tank (with copper to kill the ick) and keep them out of the reef tank for 3-4 weeks while the residual ick died out.

If anyone know's of new treatments for ICK in a reef tank, please share. I'm also interested in learning of new solutions.

[ October 11, 2001: Message edited by: Zen ]

 

[Terry B]

ALL exposed fish must be treated. You can use copper but hyposalinity (SG 1.009)has many advantages. Garlic works less consistently.
Terry B