Ich is a strange cookie You can have one fish that has and no one else or the whole tank is infested. But when you get right down to it those are the signs of what is going on. This may cause a little debate but here goes. Unless you are running a sterile system whith chemicals having ich present in your tank and not knowing it is inevitable at some point, maybee constantly. This does not mean the fish will come down with it or even just one. Infestations are usually kicked off by stress. If everyone is ill do some water quality and stability probing. Is my temp falling dramatically at night and sharply rising during the day probably the worst one. Is the salinity rising and falling due to large top offs and waiting till it absolutely needs it again. Ask yourself what can I do to make the water conditions more stable with less changes to keep my fish strong to fight it off. If Ich was that bad then mass numbers of fish in the ocean would have it. Good luck chuckG, pig.out
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