QT Tank
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GrizFyrFyter
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In a QT you can add medication that will prevent the reproduction of the parasite. The same medication would kill most invertebrates in the main tank.
CoralReeForrest
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Agreed with above. A QT tank should always be a clean slate. It should have nothing in it and fresh water thus ich Can't exist. If you have a sandbed for whatever reason then that's a different story. A QT should be a bare tank.
if things are done right neither qt nor dt will have ich.
if there was ich in qt from previous fish i am sure one would have treated the fish with meds or hypo to cure it. if treatment was successful there there wouldnt be any ich. But if treatment was not successful or fish died then yes there is ich in the QT tank but there are ways to over come that. I generally wash and scrub everything down and drain 100% and resetup before going round 2. or likely leave qt in hypo or copper till ich is gone. but i have never run into the situation like this before.
if there was ich in qt from previous fish i am sure one would have treated the fish with meds or hypo to cure it. if treatment was successful there there wouldnt be any ich. But if treatment was not successful or fish died then yes there is ich in the QT tank but there are ways to over come that. I generally wash and scrub everything down and drain 100% and resetup before going round 2. or likely leave qt in hypo or copper till ich is gone. but i have never run into the situation like this before.
MrTuskfish
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Sounds like you're trying to "manage" ich rather eradicate it.If that's the case, your reasoning makes a little sense; the fish is going to get ich again. But ich is only one of many reasons to quarantine ALL new fish. What if the new fish has velvet? That parasite can wipe out your tank in a few days. If you are living with a known ich-infested tank, why in the world are you buying a new fish? I'd get down to the job of eradicating ich from your DT ASAP, the ich won't stay quiet forever.
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Quite the opposite, i've been reading alot of the threads you contribute to and have taken your advice and applied them towards my qt tank. I just finished reading up on prophylactically treating with cuperamine and prazipro. I have a rabbitfish in there currently with one white speck on the very edge of its fin. Having trouble determining what it is.
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