Treating ich with Prazi-Pro

[asharerin]

Garlic is useful to stimulate appetite. I don't think anyone is suggesting it is a cure for ich. Can someone explain to me how fish in the wild are able to fight off ich without meds? E.g. clownifsh do not travel far and always sleep in the same spot in the wild should be easy targets for re-infection yet they seem to do fine without meds. Some folks suggest fish have no way of fighting off the parasite without meds but this makes no sense to me.

It also seems to me fish who do not travel far all have thicker slimecoats than those who do (e.g. clownifish vs tang). Is it possible the thicker coat has something to do with their ability to avoid re-infection?

 

[Railcar79]

Asking most questions on these forums is an excersize in futility. You are better off googling ich, than asking for advise on here.

 

[pr12]

Garlic is useful to stimulate appetite. I don't think anyone is suggesting it is a cure for ich. Can someone explain to me how fish in the wild are able to fight off ich without meds? E.g. clownifsh do not travel far and always sleep in the same spot in the wild should be easy targets for re-infection yet they seem to do fine without meds. Some folks suggest fish have no way of fighting off the parasite without meds but this makes no sense to me.

It also seems to me fish who do not travel far all have thicker slimecoats than those who do (e.g. clownifish vs tang). Is it possible the thicker coat has something to do with their ability to avoid re-infection?

We keep a pretty closed system, it allows the parasites to reproduce into much higher concentrations than they would be found in the wild. This makes it that infection happens much easier and more severe, your fish are being attacked by many more of these parasites than in the wild. Out in the ocean your clownfish may not move far, but theres a lot more water than we have and more movement that can move parasites away from where the clowns live.
Maybe those that are infected do die in the wild, we dont have people out there to check if a fish has ich and if it dies.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Asking most questions on these forums is an excersize in futility. You are better off googling ich, than asking for advise on here.

This is especially true when folks don't get or like the answer they're looking for. You can always get what you want on Google. If you look hard enough. Plus, there is nobody to dispute the answer they like! It must be true if Google found it! Yep, that's the way to go! Now if Google would just tell me Phil Michelson won the U.S. Open yesterday, I can get some money back! Yep, that's the way to go all right!

 

[gone fishin]

Garlic is useful to stimulate appetite. I don't think anyone is suggesting it is a cure for ich. Can someone explain to me how fish in the wild are able to fight off ich without meds? E.g. clownifsh do not travel far and always sleep in the same spot in the wild should be easy targets for re-infection yet they seem to do fine without meds. Some folks suggest fish have no way of fighting off the parasite without meds but this makes no sense to me.

It also seems to me fish who do not travel far all have thicker slimecoats than those who do (e.g. clownifish vs tang). Is it possible the thicker coat has something to do with their ability to avoid re-infection?

comparing the size of a tank to the size of the ocean is apples and oranges. The current and sheer volume of water will make it alot harder for ich to find a fish in the wild.

Bottom dwelling fish will have more of a slime coat typically than other fish.

 

[MrTuskfish]

We keep a pretty closed system, it allows the parasites to reproduce into much higher concentrations than they would be found in the wild. This makes it that infection happens much easier and more severe, your fish are being attacked by many more of these parasites than in the wild. Out in the ocean your clownfish may not move far, but theres a lot more water than we have and more movement that can move parasites away from where the clowns live.
Maybe those that are infected do die in the wild, we don't have people out there to check if a fish has ich and if it dies.

Sure, the sheer volume of the ocean & water movement spreads the newly released parasites everywhere.

 

[gone fishin]

I sure thought Phil was going to win the open.

 

[Ztous]

Garlic is useful to stimulate appetite. I don't think anyone is suggesting it is a cure for ich. Can someone explain to me how fish in the wild are able to fight off ich without meds? E.g. clownifsh do not travel far and always sleep in the same spot in the wild should be easy targets for re-infection yet they seem to do fine without meds. Some folks suggest fish have no way of fighting off the parasite without meds but this makes no sense to me.

It also seems to me fish who do not travel far all have thicker slimecoats than those who do (e.g. clownifish vs tang). Is it possible the thicker coat has something to do with their ability to avoid re-infection?

I wonder how many gallons of water there is in the ocean per fish? 10? 100? 1000? I really don't know but I highly doubt its "one inch per gallon" or whatever the current rule people go by is.

Also wouldn't surprise me if there was something predatory to Ich parasites in the ocean creating the whole circle of life thing that lions like to spout off about.

 

[Bent]

Saying praziquantel and holistic remedies will cure ich/crypto is like saying penicillin and goat testicle oil will cure AIDS.

Sorry, it's completely false.