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As you may have read before, a blue hippo tang that we got came down with ich and I lost it and a clownfish in the process. I managed to save one clown which is still in a q-tank after being treated with a copper based solution and all signs of ich are gone on him. Suprisingly, the lemonpeel angel which remained in the infected tank never showed any signs of the ich along with a 6-line wrasse and a watchman goby which also appear symptom free. I would like to have put the lemonpeel in the Q-tank but trying to catch him would have been nearly impossible and he may have died due to the stress of having to take apart the whole aquarium anyway. Now, it's my understanding that the ich parasites will die without a host after several weeks so I'm not sure what my next step should be. The cured clown is pretty happy and stress free in it's own Q-tank so I can leave him there as long as need be but I'll need to eventually return it to it's original home. I have enough to keep me busy with a 24G Nano, a 75G, and now a 15G quarantine tank. Like I said none of the other fish in the infected tank show any sign of ich symptoms so I'm thinking I should let things ride for a week or two more and see what happens but I could use some suggestions. Thanks! If you need a time reference, the tang came down with ich 3 weeks ago, died about 1 1/2 weeks ago (along with the clown) and the surviving clown has been in quarantine for about 8 days.