fender4string
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So my first fish has ich. Right now she's in a 29 gal QT with 15-20 lbs. of LR. It is barebottom. I'm running a crappy hob filter and a koralia 3.
Ok so finally my question. I currently have cupramine and a copper test kit in preparation for treating her but frankly I'm very nervous to do so as I understand copper is poisonous to fish at the wrong dose and I'm a little worried something can go wrong. Since part of the parasite's life cycle is living in sand or rock, if I remove all the rock in the tank, will the ich die on it's own? I read an article about how a fishery kept their fish in two tanks of different composition (one was concrete and the other something smooth, i.e. non-porous). The porous tank lead to outbreaks of ich and the non-porous tank had no ich outbreaks. The assumption here was that the ich could live on the porous surface whereas the smooth surface didn't allow the ich to cling to it and mature.
So is this just a pipe dream
?
Also if I do have to treat (which I'm sure I probably will) is there anything specific I should know? Frequency of testing, frequency of water changes, or anything else I'm not thinking of?
Any info is helpful and sorry about the short novel.
Ok so finally my question. I currently have cupramine and a copper test kit in preparation for treating her but frankly I'm very nervous to do so as I understand copper is poisonous to fish at the wrong dose and I'm a little worried something can go wrong. Since part of the parasite's life cycle is living in sand or rock, if I remove all the rock in the tank, will the ich die on it's own? I read an article about how a fishery kept their fish in two tanks of different composition (one was concrete and the other something smooth, i.e. non-porous). The porous tank lead to outbreaks of ich and the non-porous tank had no ich outbreaks. The assumption here was that the ich could live on the porous surface whereas the smooth surface didn't allow the ich to cling to it and mature.
So is this just a pipe dream
?Also if I do have to treat (which I'm sure I probably will) is there anything specific I should know? Frequency of testing, frequency of water changes, or anything else I'm not thinking of?
Any info is helpful and sorry about the short novel
.
