Ick/flukes question

[agreeive?fish]

How long would a tank need to set DRY to irradicate ick or flukes.. or are they like brime shrimp..revive when wet again..

also what would you use to clean the dry tank to kill ick/flukes

fish are in hospital tank but due to having a banded bamboo shark i cannot go 8 weeks fallow tank as i have no place to keep the shark for 8 weeks... the shark shows no signs of ick or flukes but other inhabitants have ick and there was an fluke issue in the tank as well..iam more concerned about the ick because of the copper/shark issues and i dont trust the wife to moniter the hypo(and she is scared out of her witts to do it and i honestly dont know if sharks can handle hypo)

 

[sweeTang21]

about 3 weeks will allow the life span to finish. Ich works by host propogation, in other words, no host=no babies lol. Remove the fish and let the tank sit fallow with water etc will still kill the parasite. Remove the water and anything aquatic will die in short period of time.

flukes is a bit vague, do you mean gill flukes?? if so then removing the fish and placing into QT and treating is your best chance. Again this disease works off of a host. Remove the host, remove the disease in the water. As ive heard, this disease is usually caused by a large swing in pH, just a side note. Now id do some research or get some more replys because i dont know that much about gill flukes, never encountered it, never studied it lol. Hope this helps a little for ya.

 

[Reefscape]

Gill flukes ( dactylogyrus ) can / do die off pretty quickly when spotted and treated when caught early. Gill flukes can easily kill a small fish ( about an inch or so ) very quickly indeed and often they die before the aquarist gets chance to spot the issue and start treatment.

Treatment wise, formalin baths are a real good way to kill the parasite and its eggs, copper treatment. There are a lot of products to buy off the shelf which treat gill flukes, but, as had been documented in the past, these treatments only really do well with treating wild caught fish, where-as these products dont really have much effect on captive bred fish.

Another effective method is potassium permanganate baths.