Cleaner gobies is such a misnomer

[Len]

My stupid cleaner goby pair is constantly covered with ich. So they go around, trying to clean fish but instead infect them. My fish are all healthy and ward of ich on their own pretty quickly, but I think it's time I got rid of these "cleaners."

 

[pwj1286]

oooh the irony. it could be a Greek play. :lol:
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[Anonymous]

Ahem...why are your cleaner gobies stupid for having ich? :lol:
Seems to me like the complacent non-quarantining (admit it,you're a closet non-quarantiner!!) aquarist is to blame here.

Get them in a hospital tank, treat them with hypo - boom...no more stupid fish.

 

[Len]

I swear the ich came with the salt mix!

 

[Anonymous]

Len, were these captive bred or wild caught? No reason to really buy wild ones I guess given how (relatively) easy these are to raise commercially but I have seen a number of the aquacultured ones come in with ich.

 

[bleedingthought]

They don't "clean" each other, then?

 

[Len]

Hey Gold, sorry I missed your question. They were captive bred, but I got them from my LFS without QT :?