Tank Transfer for ick

There is so many different treatments I found , ick attack did not work for me I did found a place that did sell copper. From what I read thou you need to turn the temp up to 82 pull the fish out and just let the parasites die off due to lack of fish over a 60 to 72 day period. As with everything that is evolve in saltwater..... It takes time and patient

 

You move the fish between tanks every 72 hrs? If so it seems like there's a risk of just transferring the ich with the fish, and 13 days is not nearly enough to make sure the tomont stage is all out of the substrate I don't think. As the saying goes, "in this hobby nothing good happens quickly".

 

It is a good method I have recommended many times. Probably the least stressful on the fish and the fastest way to cure it.

Here is the gist

First you need to understand the ich life cycle.

Ich only feeds on a fish for 3-7 days before falling off. When the ich falls off the fish, it crawls around and finds a place to make a cyst to reproduce. It takes a minimum of 3 days before it can reinfect a fish. So the transfer method breaks the life cycle. The warmer the temp, the faster the life cycle.

If we take the fish out of the tank every 48-72 hours, for a minimum of 10 days, all the ich that has been feeding on the fish should of fallen off. I like to go 14 days to be absolutely safe.

You need two identical tanks. Heater, air stones, and pvc hiding places. Put the fish into the first tank, and leave for 48-72 hours. Then transfer fish, and only fish into tank 2. Immediately sterilize, bleach tank one and its contents for reuse in 48-72 hours. Repeat process for 10 days.

Ich is most active at night, so I like to do the transfer early in the morning if possible.

Now ich can survive in your tank without any fish for a minimum of four weeks. So if you just put your fish back into your tank, they will get reinfected. I prefer the main tank to go fishless for 6 weeks.

Let me know if you have any questions

This is also a great way to QT fish after they have settled in and are eating well and used to your QT tank.

 

I see, I wasn't seeing what this method did for the display tank, since the ich could be in the substrate for more than the 10 days or so.