[ChuckG]

I should have left him alone to fend for himself. My achilles went on to a better place today.

Yesterday (late in the day) I saw some new spots on the achilles in QT and I assumed at first that it was just the next wave of ichosites (is that a word?) hatching. But these spots were much smaller. I did think of velvet and was going to pick up some copper today but when I came home it was already too late. From swimming fine and eating like a pig yesterday to gone today. Whatever it was - works fast.

I now have to wonder if it wouldn't have been better to have just left him alone in the display tank. The added stress of catching him and moving him to a new location and me always messing with the tank water etc. certainly added a lot more stress to the fish than if I had just left him alone to fight things off.

Two more fish do have ich. My scopas tang and my bi-colored blenny. They will remain in the display tank and I will continue to feed good and hope that they build up an immunity to the parasite.

I do realize that with each new wave of parasites that there will be more and more of them in the tank and I'm taking the chance that even fish that seem to be healthy now could end up succombing to the parasites.

Worse case scenerio and my whole tank gets wiped out. Then I leave it fallow for awhile and QT each and every fish prior to going back in it.

Yes - I had a QT prior to purchasing any fish.
No - I didn't QT any of them.

You can start the flogging now.