magnum420 said:
sorry I'm so gullable... but the vitamin supp. I use is high in vitC so I figured maybe there was something to that. next time I'll know not to trust any of you guys...
Thanks... well... not really...
MAg
Sorry you feel bad. That wasn't really my intention. I thought it was clear from my post, and the discussion of scurvy, that I was using ironic satrie.
Lots of 'cures' and 'suppliments' seem like they could work. This whole thread has been about a 'cure' for ich that seems to make some sense. But everything could be spun to seem like it makes sense. All it takes is one 'supporting' opinion, and the band wagon is off and running.
Vitamin c made the rounds several years ago as a 'miracle' additive, even though is really doesn't seem to help - hence your suppliment.
'It happened after, therefore was caused by' is a really powerful, but incorrect, chain of reasoning.
Like I said earlier, the idea that changing a light could rid your tank of ich has exactly the same level of supportive evidence as ginger. Yet for some reason, most would simply dismiss the idea that a change in lighting would cure ich - even though it would be easy to spin a decent sounding explanition.
And in a very large way, you shouldn't trust anyone who posts on these boards. We don't know who we are, and eventhough we are all trying to help each other, there is lots of weird information out there. If I want to check something out I search at least two of the online boards to see if there is some agreement.
There is no agreement anywhere that ginger would do anything. Yet people are still claiming that it works.