coralite
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Hey StevenPro.
Nice article on the details of ich. The protomont stage you discussed is very dependent on adequate substrate to encyst and multiply. As a manager at LFS in Denver and Atlanta I very frequentlly suggested reef tanks without substrate for the first yr of the tank, while the fish population was aquired. Also, for outbreaks of Ich, we discovered that it was very difficult to treat for ich, with copper or UV, in the presence of sand beds. The deeper the sand bed, the graver the condition. Eventually, in the tanks w/o sand beds we experienced 90 % of cases, experiencing non fatal cases of ich for long periods of time, at very reduced levels. I am not at all surprised that your Grouper experienced reduced Ich in fiberglass tanks but it is nice to get some corroboration on the matter. I spent a great deal of effort trying to convince some on this board that Ich was truly dependent on the substrate to reproduce and I was treated like a crazy man.
Your localized protomont hypothesis reaches a little bit but it might be plausible even if it is hard to imagine.
Nice article on the details of ich. The protomont stage you discussed is very dependent on adequate substrate to encyst and multiply. As a manager at LFS in Denver and Atlanta I very frequentlly suggested reef tanks without substrate for the first yr of the tank, while the fish population was aquired. Also, for outbreaks of Ich, we discovered that it was very difficult to treat for ich, with copper or UV, in the presence of sand beds. The deeper the sand bed, the graver the condition. Eventually, in the tanks w/o sand beds we experienced 90 % of cases, experiencing non fatal cases of ich for long periods of time, at very reduced levels. I am not at all surprised that your Grouper experienced reduced Ich in fiberglass tanks but it is nice to get some corroboration on the matter. I spent a great deal of effort trying to convince some on this board that Ich was truly dependent on the substrate to reproduce and I was treated like a crazy man.
Your localized protomont hypothesis reaches a little bit but it might be plausible even if it is hard to imagine.