Rython
Active Member
Ich experts:
When I was researching various diseases and treatments I came across the following statement made by a Seachem rep in a thread on another message board in 2009:
"make sure that all of the parasites that may have remained in your display tank in a dormant cyst form, come out of the substrate (or where ever) and die off before putting your fish back into the tank. To do this, take a cup or two of the water from your QT tank and put it in the display tank. What you are doing is putting fish hormones, basically fish aroma if you will, into the display tank which will make the parasites come out of their dormant stage and swim around to look for a host."
Now, aside from the questionable recommendation to put QT water in the DT, Seachem CS seems to enjoy a reasonably credible reputation among reefers. So I'm wondering about the theory behind this statement. Have ich cysts been observed reacting to fishy water in such a way (transitioning from cyst to swimming)? Or is this just something that sounds plausible but is just someone's wild guess? I haven't been able to find it documented elsewhere.
If true, putting a cup of fishy water from the DT into the coral QT would be a handy tool to reduce the time invertebrates need to spend in QT to ensure no ich moves to the DT as a cyst on a coral (etc.).
Thoughts?
When I was researching various diseases and treatments I came across the following statement made by a Seachem rep in a thread on another message board in 2009:
"make sure that all of the parasites that may have remained in your display tank in a dormant cyst form, come out of the substrate (or where ever) and die off before putting your fish back into the tank. To do this, take a cup or two of the water from your QT tank and put it in the display tank. What you are doing is putting fish hormones, basically fish aroma if you will, into the display tank which will make the parasites come out of their dormant stage and swim around to look for a host."
Now, aside from the questionable recommendation to put QT water in the DT, Seachem CS seems to enjoy a reasonably credible reputation among reefers. So I'm wondering about the theory behind this statement. Have ich cysts been observed reacting to fishy water in such a way (transitioning from cyst to swimming)? Or is this just something that sounds plausible but is just someone's wild guess? I haven't been able to find it documented elsewhere.
If true, putting a cup of fishy water from the DT into the coral QT would be a handy tool to reduce the time invertebrates need to spend in QT to ensure no ich moves to the DT as a cyst on a coral (etc.).
Thoughts?
