maroun.c
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Looking at ich lifecycle and the swimming stages where treatment is only effective, does the following make sense:
If you have a fish in an introduction tank and it develops an initial outbreak of ich, fast breathing, decreased feeding response but still eating. You move to a Q tank but instead of directly treating with copper delay the treatment for few days so that fish recops eating and better respiration would that have a negative effect on the treatment? resoning behind this is that assuming the Q tank is disease free to start with, any trophonts still on the fish will not be affected by medication as their under the skin, you do miss hitting the mature swimming trophons on their way to encapsulate (18 hours) and then the minimum 3 days cyst stages (colder temp might slow this further) adn then add treatment to hit the theronts on their way back to the fish?
Maybe use a UV in the initial pre copper period to kill some of the swimming mature trophonts?
guess another consideration is wether copper provides any immediate relief to the fish that counter balances the side effects on some delicate fish? maybe a relief for the gills infection that will then make it profitable to medicate fast if fish is breathing rapidly?
Thanks for any input.
If you have a fish in an introduction tank and it develops an initial outbreak of ich, fast breathing, decreased feeding response but still eating. You move to a Q tank but instead of directly treating with copper delay the treatment for few days so that fish recops eating and better respiration would that have a negative effect on the treatment? resoning behind this is that assuming the Q tank is disease free to start with, any trophonts still on the fish will not be affected by medication as their under the skin, you do miss hitting the mature swimming trophons on their way to encapsulate (18 hours) and then the minimum 3 days cyst stages (colder temp might slow this further) adn then add treatment to hit the theronts on their way back to the fish?
Maybe use a UV in the initial pre copper period to kill some of the swimming mature trophonts?
guess another consideration is wether copper provides any immediate relief to the fish that counter balances the side effects on some delicate fish? maybe a relief for the gills infection that will then make it profitable to medicate fast if fish is breathing rapidly?
Thanks for any input.
