Ich Spots

[Sandy]

Now here's another topic.... My blue hippo gets ich when I do alot of fragging or moving things around in my tank. Anyone else have this problem? Also, do you treat for ich or do you let nature run its course??? I did not treat mine and the spots were gone in less than a week. Maybe I am just lucky.

[Doug]

Other than the most delicate of butterflies, blue tangs/regal tang/flagtail surgeons have long been thought of as "ich prone". I once had a competing retailer drop off a whole box he was shipped by mistake gratis at a shop I worked at because he didn't want them in his tanks. On the other hand, a customer with three 300 gallon tanks had one for years that was nearly ten inches long and healthy as a horse. If you've had this one a while, it's not being harassed or stressed by sudden environmental changes (besides you messing with the rock work), I would be tempted to wait a few days to see if it will abate on its own. Are there other, more "delicate" fish in the tank showing any signs?

[Gerwin]

when I took that course at the university offered by Dr Gratzek, they had done studies proving fish develop a immunity to even ich, so your tang may pop up with slight infection only to cure itself having had the parasite before.
My personal BLue tang experience is once you have one that survives it once they are almost impossible to kill

[Sandy]

From your personal experience,,,, that's good news for me. Beck and Lloyd might not be able to put a heebie geebie death hex on my blue hippo...