Raising temperture to cure ich

[CoralReefer]

The non infectious stage should last 3-28 days in which the newly hatched parasites have 24 hours to find a food source.

Why didnt any of my fish get reinfected?
I'm not doubting your knowledge I just read up on the life cycle I am just curious to know why it didnt come back.
Apparently the medication claims that it not only speeds up the slime coat but attracts the ich to be a non nutritional food source.

 

[basiab]

Unless you do a study with hundreds it is impossible to tell. There are times people do nothing and it does away. So we have many stories of how different people solved it yet when others try it it doesn't work.

 

[marrone]

Here's the problem with the slime coating part, ich will enter and attack the fish gills, mouth and eye areas, so the slime coating part doesn't really work, unless the ich can't get out and die. I'm not sure what type of non nutritional food source that they're talking about, but with fish in the tank the ich would most likely go for the fish as a food source. It kind a sound a little like garlic, where the fish would build up a slime coating and the ich wouldn't reattach to the fish because they don't like the taste.

I think what you'll find with a lot of reef tank is that with all the corals, inverts, filter feeders that a lot of the spores do get eaten before they can reinfect the fish. Also, most people have a lot of flow in their tanks and use filters socks, so a lot of the spores do get swept up into the overflows and then into the filter sock. There still maybe ich in the tank but it mayn't be a level were it's a problem and some fish do eventually become immune to the ich too.

The real thing is unless you use copper or Hypo you really don't know if any of these other things are actually the reason why the ich has gone away, and most of the time it's something else that caused it to go away.

 

[marrone]

Unless you do a study with hundreds it is impossible to tell. There are times people do nothing and it does away. So we have many stories of how different people solved it yet when others try it it doesn't work.

+1 This is very true, as outside of copper hypo and possibly the transfer method there really isn't anything that is 100% sure. A lot of times people think something that they did actually work while it was actually something else that did it.

Unfortunately Ich is very tough, in a lot of cases tougher than the fish that it attacks, and most of these methods that say that they can kill it within a couple of days aren't true.

 

[CoralReefer]

Here's the problem with the slime coating part, ich will enter and attack the fish gills, mouth and eye areas, so the slime coating part doesn't really work, unless the ich can't get out and die. I'm not sure what type of non nutritional food source that they're talking about, but with fish in the tank the ich would most likely go for the fish as a food source. It kind a sound a little like garlic, where the fish would build up a slime coating and the ich wouldn't reattach to the fish because they don't like the taste.

I think what you'll find with a lot of reef tank is that with all the corals, inverts, filter feeders that a lot of the spores do get eaten before they can reinfect the fish. Also, most people have a lot of flow in their tanks and use filters socks, so a lot of the spores do get swept up into the overflows and then into the filter sock. There still maybe ich in the tank but it mayn't be a level were it's a problem and some fish do eventually become immune to the ich too.

The real thing is unless you use copper or Hypo you really don't know if any of these other things are actually the reason why the ich has gone away, and most of the time it's something else that caused it to go away.

Thanks for the insight

 

[MrBishopM]

Combo attack

If you have only live rock, fish and snails in your display reef can you use high temp and hypo-salinity together?

I'm also using No-Ich in my reef but would like to try a combo of things like temp and hypo.

What are your thoughts on this?

( 210 gal reef with 600 lb live rock 90 gal sump )