Help with some questions I have about a quarantine/hospital tank

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jworth;4816279; said:
I would really just like to go your route instead of pulling everyone. I read that if no new ich is added into the system the current population will exhaust itself and die within 10 months. I am really wrestling with myself about it. Tearing apart an established tank is no small task.
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It will not exhaust itself in 10 months. As long as there are fish in the tank, there will be the parasite once it is introduced. They will continuously feed on your fish, you just won't see it cause there won't be a lot of them. So the parasite will be there waiting for something in your tank to cause stress and jump at the opportunity to attack stressed fish. Something as simple as adding a new fish, moving rock around, or neglecting water changes for a little while can set it off. Once you have an outbreak it needs to be treated properly or you most likely will see all your fish die.
 
jworth;4826353; said:
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/23132-marine-ich-myths-facts.html


Nonstophoops, I am definitely not saying you are wrong and your way is definitely the best option but please reference #14 on that list. It does seem like an accurate resource. Maybe its something we could all learn from and maybe disprove some of those findings. This list has also been on other sites that I have used as references.
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It is a pretty thorough and well done article.

The problem I have with it is that there are no quoted sources that I saw.

This is the statement you were referring to.

"14. INTERESTING FIND: If no new MI is introduce into an infected aquarium, the MI already there continues to cycle through multiple generations until about 10 to 11 months when the MI has ‘worn itself out’ and becomes less infective. A tank can be free of an MI infestation if it is never exposed to new MI parasites for over 11 months."

It states that the ich will become "less effective", but then says it will be completely gone. I feed this statement very hard to believe.
1. I have never heard this before in any way.
2. How would ich exist in the world if the population wore itself out in 11 months? If new babies are born and new life cycles keep being completed it will not wear itself out. That doesn't make any sense. Any living thing that had this happen would not still be alive, it would be extinct.
 
Could be but does it reproduce asexually all of the time or also sexually? Which could explain why the gene pool causes a die off in an aquarium setting
 
jworth;4827611; said:
Could be but does it reproduce asexually all of the time or also sexually? Which could explain why the gene pool causes a die off in an aquarium setting
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I am pretty certain that it only reproduces asexually.
 
With that being said, it could equal extinction. However this is an article debunking myths, so I wonder what the source of that info is.
 
Just add some copper to your tank, in high doses, and that will get rid of the ick.



Ok, Im just kidding.

Seriously though, I believe in the case of ich, that it is ever present and dormant, waiting for a fishies immune system to drop and become suceptable. And that could be incredably wrong...
 
With superior water quality and good foods equalling healthy and strong fish, many of the multiplying ich would not be able to find a host and die off. Is my understanding correct? I agree that it may be present and dormant and not trying to be argumentative as i agree on the proper treatment, but for clarity sake and to others who may read this,
 
Ive always understood it to go dormant. But you are right, proper water qaulity and nutrition and you should be ok (and low stress levels).
 
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