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Bro,

From my experience since we all have issue, having a quarantine tank may be a luxury, with ich:

* Most important is stress free, full of appetite that keep their immune system top noch.

* Second, if tank has ich but fish are all healthy and able to fight, ich will slowly lost their power until we introduce new fish with ich that somehow causes rejuvenated ich outbreak.

According to research, after 11 months, tank with ich but never introduce new fish with ich, will cure itself, that is the ich parasites will die by itself.

My guess (but no proof) is that it is the case with their genetic diversity. When they give offsprings from the same pool of genes, over the time, it creates weak individuals.

So if tank has ich, but all fish are healthy and strong, do not add new fish. Let the tank run for about a year and the tank will be ich free.

* Fish that is weak and show heavy white spots, depending on how strong it is, give a fresh water bath and then put on hypo salinity, observe and try keep feeding it as often as possible. But remember to always change water to keep quality good. When it is strong and recover, slowly increase salinity, monitor and in the end put back to the tank. Remember to keep the fish stress free. If existing inhabitants bully the fish, got to immediately isolate it. Within a day or two the fish can die if kept bullied.

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Would suggest to switch off the chillier to raise the tank temperature to room temperature approx.29 ~30.C Use garlic dip to soak your fish food prior to feeding. it boost your fish's immunity. Will tend to lose some weaker fishes to ich but fishes that keep feeding will survive even with ich on the body and recover.

Hope it helps,

My tank setting:
Size : 48" x 24" x 24"
Return pump: 1 x Vectra S2, 1 x Eheim 1264
Skimmer: Skimz DC skimmer SV203
Lighting : Maxspect Razor R420R 160W
Chiller : 1hp drop coil compressor
Wave maker : 2 x Nero 5 , 1 x Tunze 6055

Top up : Tunze Osmolator Universal 3155

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I wouldn't agree with anchorman... Raising the temperature wouldn't help as some believed that a temperature rise would speed up the process of ich... But it has been proven that it is not so... Unless you treat the whole tank, ich will always be around... If you're lucky and a few fish survive, it is only because they have grown stronger immunity and resistance to ich... But ich continues growing in the tank... And you can rest assured that any new additions will contract ich and the whole cycle starts again... If you have live rocks, I'd recommend removing the rocks and treat the whole tank if you're going hypo... Another proven method is by copper, but be very careful... High dose, fish dies... Low dose, ich survives... I've battled ich for as many times as I can remember and the safest is still going hypo... Treat every new addition for ich before putting it in DT...

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