Tank Transfer Question

[L8ndeb]

Hello All,

I'm trying the Tank Transfer quarantine method, and have a quick question.

I know the schedule is to transfer the morning of the fourth day, but I was wondering......if my guys get put into the 1st QT say noon/1pm on day one, am I still looking at the first transfer taking place the morning of the fourth day?

Just want to get the timing right. TIA

 

[loup]

That's what I did. Fourth day and they first went in as late as 4pm.

 

[jamesbaur13]

from what i've read you want to stick to mornings as much as possible, reason being is that is the time when its believed the parasite seems to drop off the fish.

Although IMO I believe ich to be more related to stress than anything else. Ich is normally not visible to the naked eye... what people see is the secondary infection cause by ich. Just like some mornings where you are sick, you often feel best just after waking.... sometimes you wake up and the illness is completely gone. I think it's no different with fish.

Given the studies regarding it... i'm not going to disagree with them in regards to their life cycle. I just don't feel their life cycle has anything to do with photo periods. I feel it's all about the reduced stress during the sleep period that allows the fish to repair and makes it look like the spots have gone away. Sometimes the ich has left... other times the ich is still there, it's just the fish fought off the infection overnight and you can no longer see the spot.

 

[snorvich]

If you read the literature (marine biology) as I have you will find that time of day rather than stress is relevant. More details about ich in this sticky which can be found here.

 

[MrTuskfish]

from what i've read you want to stick to mornings as much as possible, reason being is that is the time when its believed the parasite seems to drop off the fish.

Although IMO I believe ich to be more related to stress than anything else. Ich is normally not visible to the naked eye... what people see is the secondary infection cause by ich. Just like some mornings where you are sick, you often feel best just after waking.... sometimes you wake up and the illness is completely gone. I think it's no different with fish.

Given the studies regarding it... i'm not going to disagree with them in regards to their life cycle. I just don't feel their life cycle has anything to do with photo periods. I feel it's all about the reduced stress during the sleep period that allows the fish to repair and makes it look like the spots have gone away. Sometimes the ich has left... other times the ich is still there, it's just the fish fought off the infection overnight and you can no longer see the spot.

It doesn't matter how much "stress" a fish is undergoing; if ich isn't there, fish can't get it. Most long-established tanks don't have ich, so their occupants will never become infected with it. You're free to feel anything you want; but facts based on scientific evidence should be the basis for decisions made by hobbyists, at least IMO.