Ich treatment via hyposalinity, few questions before starting

[ezcompany]

I'm about to treat a few fish and had a few questions for those of you with any experience with firefish and true perculas.

My first question: With the time and patience hyposalinity treatment requires, can firefish and true percs be treated with copper as a safe alternative?

Second question: The true percula pair show no signs of ich or disease. All fish still exhibit strong appetite. Are true perculas somehow more resistant or immune to certain types ich? Sounds to me like a stupid question but I wanted to be sure.

 

[ThRoewer]

Copper is never a safe alternative!

If it is only 3 small fish that show no symptoms I would rather recommend TTM.

I've treated a pair of percula successfully with hyposalinity against an active ich infection and they handled it well. But the 2 fridmani I treated with them had bacterial infection issues.

As for percula being more or less resistant - I would vote more. The thing I would worry more about with these is rather brook than ich.
Of the 4 pairs I currently have only one ever showed symptoms or got sick (the first one that I left at the LFS for a month in their ich, velvet and brook infested tanks :headwally. The other 3 never showed a spot even during ich outbreaks in their tanks. Same goes for the ocellaris or percula pairs I had in the past.
That said, you should never trust on that and rather assume the worst until proven otherwise.

 

[snorvich]

Copper is never a safe alternative!

If it is only 3 small fish that show no symptoms I would rather recommend TTM.

I've treated a pair of percula successfully with hyposalinity against an active ich infection and they handled it well. But the 2 fridmani I treated with them had bacterial infection issues.

As for percula being more or less resistant - I would vote more. The thing I would worry more about with these is rather brook than ich.
Of the 4 pairs I currently have only one ever showed symptoms or got sick (the first one that I left at the LFS for a month in their ich, velvet and brook infested tanks :headwally. The other 3 never showed a spot even during ich outbreaks in their tanks. Same goes for the ocellaris or percula pairs I had in the past.
That said, you should never trust on that and rather assume the worst until proven otherwise.

What he said

 

[ezcompany]

thank you for the replies.
I will begin hypo on the pair of clown and helfrich using hypo and skip the copper entirely.