30 days without having fish

[PirateLove]

I introduced a fish with ich into my new tank. I took him out to rid my tank of ich but it has only been 30 days. Just my cleaner shrimp is in the tank. Is there a way to speed up the process? 70 to 80 days seems like forever! Any suggestions?

 

[nuttyd]

Be patient. that is it.

 

[gone fishin]

No way to speed it up that I know of. It is all about your risk tolerance and if you want to start over.

 

[BigBlueTang]

No way to speed it up that I know of. It is all about your risk tolerance and if you want to start over.

What he said.

After around 50 days, I think it's like a 90% chance that all of the ich is gone? Only a couple of strains have been shown to require 72 days..

However, I would personally not risk it if it was my tank.

There is a way to start over! Dry out everything. I'm guessing you don't want to do this

 

[Reef Frog]

I say do it right. Nobody who dos the right thing looks back and then says "man I wish I had not wasted those 45 days".

To keep yourself busy & entertained, set up a proper QT tank or two and buy some fish. Consiser TTM. The fish will be ready close to the date of the end of the fallow period. Or concentrate on corals & inverts. Patience.

 

[Bent]

Agree. Nows a great time to start QTing some new fish for an extended period.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Yup, waiting sucks.
But do you really want to do it a second time?
Tough it out and get some new fish into QT to help pass the days.

 

[Capt.Nemo]

Had same thing my friend. It's a long time.
That's why I QT'd my Tomato's for so long. Think they went 7 weeks in QT.
In hindsight, it was so worth it.

Go monk with it........OOOOOOHHHHHMMMMM!!!

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[homer1475]

What I did to pass the time in my DT, stock up on coral!

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the coral collection I have had it not been for the ich fallow period.

 

[tassod]

My experience with fallow periods is that they don't work. I went through it twice with the last one going on for 4 months and it didn't work. I ended up breaking the tank down and starting over. Don't waist your time waiting, its quicker to just empty it out, sterilize and start over. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Sk8r]

Of course there isn't. If there were, we'd be all over it.

 

[Reef Frog]

My experience with fallow periods is that they don't work. I went through it twice with the last one going on for 4 months and it didn't work. I ended up breaking the tank down and starting over. Don't waist your time waiting, its quicker to just empty it out, sterilize and start over. Just my 2 cents.

Now this is an interesting & bold conclusion that goes against a great deal of accepted wisdom, common sense (*} & even some legit scientific observations. As such, it deserves a bit more explanation with many details & hopefully a self analysis of what you possibly did wrong. Eh?

How do you know the fish you introduced after the 120 day fallow period did not carry the parasite back in again, for example?

(*) Common sense. By that I mean that every multi cellular animal will eventually perish without food, right? Do you think you acquired a super strain? Or maybe an airborne strain this far unknown to science (just kidding). Seriously, please tell us more.

 

[Breadman03]

Someone on here, Billdog I think, brought up the issue of ich being able to be transmitted across some distance in the air due to popping bubbles being able to essentially throw them a long way.

 

[gone fishin]

Someone on here, Billdog I think, brought up the issue of ich being able to be transmitted across some distance in the air due to popping bubbles being able to essentially throw them a long way.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2423604

This is a sticky from the fish disease forum that discusses this.

 

[Reef Frog]

Someone on here, Billdog I think, brought up the issue of ich being able to be transmitted across some distance in the air due to popping bubbles being able to essentially throw them a long way.

The OP didn't indicate if there were other actively or formally infected tanks nearby. That would be a pretty exotic but easily fixable way to get ich huh?

But lots of other things could have been to blame especially if he keeps multiple tanks with animals going in and out. Hope he/she follows up on the comment.

 

[greengeco82]

I would consider a raise in my tank temp to the high end of an acceptable temp. It may hurry along the life cycle of ich. I have nothing to back this, but I'm sure an educated person will chime in soon.