Are diseases like Ich or clownfish disease able to live on shrimp?

[ryanMR2]

I recently had a major fish loss, a powder brown tang, 2 Ocellaris Clowns and a Bangai Cardinal. The tang did fine for over a month but eventually got ich and was dead within 2 days, after that it was a downward slope. The aquarium was over 6 months old with the clowns and cardinal doing great for over 4 months. I always do regular water changes and I know my mistakes by not having a hospital tank and not proper quarantine after the first signs of disease, as of right now I'm a senior in college and just wanting to stick with hardy damsels and like fish until I can get a job that offers a bit more flexible budget that is required for keeping more exotic fish like the tang.

My question is I have become particularly attached to my cleaner shrimp(the last survivor) named "Sauce" and will diseases like ich and clownfish disease live on him with no other fish in the tank? I am planning to go a month or more until these diseases live out their life cycles and die away with no fish in the tank, so I am able to start anew. But will the diseases still live with having a shrimp in the tank?

Or if there is a better way of going about things please let me know, thanks

 

[paulamrein]

It can be transfered on invertabrates, but it can't be sustained on invertabrates. Leaving your tank without fish for 6 to 8 weeks. You should be disease free. Everything that goes into the tank there after needs to stay out for atleast a month, with fish being treated and rock, sand, or anything wet can just stay out without treatment.