Hello guys,
My question is can marine ich survive in extremely low temperatures? I know that they say boiling your water for 1 hour at or above 30°C kills ich, but I'm curious if the same is true if you cool your water down to near freezing temperatures?
The reason I ask is I recently had to move(yesterday)...in the middle of me dealing with a persistent and stubborn ich infection. All my fish were in QT in copper for 1 week and then in hypo for almost a week when I had to bag them up and move. The display tank was fallow. I reserved as much display water as I could by transferring it to a 55 gallon drum in the back of a pick-up truck. The water in that drum was there for 3+ hours and the temp dropped below 30°F. After the fish we in bags for 12 hours and me being desperate to get the fish out of the bags before I started losing fish I took all the fish with no visible signs of infection and put them back into my display and 2 fish who still have a visible outbreak remained in bags for about another hour while I set up the QT.
-When taking the fish out of the bags no bagged water went into the display
-after 12 hours of the fish being in the tank there is still no signs of infection.
-I will continue to closely watch for an outbreak
-the display is by no means fully set up, so that in the event of an outbreak I can easier remove the rocks and corals to catch the fish.
- how long of a time period must I wait with no outbreak to begin to think I'm in the clear?
My question is can marine ich survive in extremely low temperatures? I know that they say boiling your water for 1 hour at or above 30°C kills ich, but I'm curious if the same is true if you cool your water down to near freezing temperatures?
The reason I ask is I recently had to move(yesterday)...in the middle of me dealing with a persistent and stubborn ich infection. All my fish were in QT in copper for 1 week and then in hypo for almost a week when I had to bag them up and move. The display tank was fallow. I reserved as much display water as I could by transferring it to a 55 gallon drum in the back of a pick-up truck. The water in that drum was there for 3+ hours and the temp dropped below 30°F. After the fish we in bags for 12 hours and me being desperate to get the fish out of the bags before I started losing fish I took all the fish with no visible signs of infection and put them back into my display and 2 fish who still have a visible outbreak remained in bags for about another hour while I set up the QT.
-When taking the fish out of the bags no bagged water went into the display
-after 12 hours of the fish being in the tank there is still no signs of infection.
-I will continue to closely watch for an outbreak
-the display is by no means fully set up, so that in the event of an outbreak I can easier remove the rocks and corals to catch the fish.
- how long of a time period must I wait with no outbreak to begin to think I'm in the clear?
