I watched the video. Interesting that you keep flamingo's in your tank to control ich. :lol2:
But I must say it is a bit disturbing that you feel comfortable disecting your pets when they pass,
Well today I disected quite a few clams, mussels and oysters with some flounder. Tomorrow I may disect some tuna with some more clams. I eat seafood almost every day. Love it, and I disect it before I eat it, especially the clams.
First off it's not "Ich." It's Cryptocaryon Irritans. The parasite is biologically different than Ichthyophthirius and both are different Oodinium.
Yes, I know it is and I am sorry for that. This should be a discussion of all diseases or at least parasitic infections. Ich is just easier to spell than Cryptocaryon Irritans. Either way some tanks including mine have no problems with either.
About different strains of paracites, I don't think that arguement carrys weight about them going through so many strains and then dying out. Maybe they do but today I added 15 gallons of water right from the Sound
(out by you Bill in Riverhead)
Last week I added another 15 gallons with no treatment. Two weeks ago I added a gobi and a rainsford gobi, this week I added 2 cardinals and a load of amphipods. I Do this all the time, all year, and have been doing it for forty years so something is wrong with the theories about ich, or crypto, oodinium etc. There has to be some reason why many tanks, I don't know how many but if even one tank has no problem with paracites "and" coincidently it is the oldest tank on here, there is something that we, scientists, or biologists do not know. Ich has to be in my tank and new strains have to be added all the time, every few weeks, sometimes every day. What is happening to these paracites? Where are they going? why are they not killing my fish?
That is what this thread is about, not the traditional knowledge which by the way has to be wrong for the reasons I just stated. Should everyone do what I do? Of course not, should we stop quaranting? of course not.
Should we try to figure out why ich does not always kill or even bother fish, of course we should. If we do not, we will be just like the people in the middle ages, just bury the people who are deformed by leprosy and quarantine them but don't try to figure out why some of the people never got it.:fun5:
Any how, I hope we didn't ruffle any feathers. I think this is an educational, entertaining discussion that, so far is going well.
Have a great night everyone. :wavehand: