My understanding is that you can rid your tank of it 100%. It can't get the parasite if it isn't in the tank whether stressed or not.
Hyposalinity & ick Help?
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That includes the beneficial life in your rock and sand. As for whether it works, I'll leave that for someone that trusts it.
ya, that was something I heard from a couple LFSs and also after reading the Kick Ick bottle, it seemed to indicated that as well with its statement: "It has been scientifically formulated to eliminate the free swimming, infectious stage of the ich life cycle". To me, that sounds like it wont kill Ick in its non free swimming, non infectious stage.
yes, I agree. Sucks that you have to wait until you have a problem arise before the medicine works.. obviously would be much better to make sure the tank is Ick free to begin with.
Does that apply to everything though.. frags you get from members of your reef club.. a new mushroom rock.. etc. Seems it should as ick can and will live anyplace in a tank. I don't often see people preaching about corals going into a QT like I do fish.
Depends where you look. You'll find quite a bit of people preaching about qting to prevent not only ich but redbugs, nudibranches, etc.
I do agree, even though I have never done it myself, that QT is a very important step that no one should do without. I don't want anyone thinking I am trying to encourage people to not use a QT setup just because I have been lucky.
