Ick experiance

Thanks for the input Kracer.....I agree with you now that I have seen it do that!

 

Cleaner shrimp cannot eat ich. Ich burrows under the scales, where the cleaners can't get it.

The tangs feel it, so they'll go near the shrimp and flare their fins to "call" them to clean, but the shrimp can't get to it.

 

Hmmm his ick was at the very tip of his right pectorial fin....no scales there????

 

x2 on that one. Why do these things keep repeating?

 

I have read that cleaner shrimp and fish cannot eat the ich off the fish. But their cleaning does make the fish feel better!

 

Skin, scales, whatever you want to call it. It burrows under the (outer layer) of the fish, and creates a cyst. Cleaners literally cannot get to it. Other parasites hang off of the fish; ich burrows into the fish. Cleaners are only effective against the other parasites.

 

Is it blue green or green blue if it was ick it definatley was external...about the size of a pin head by the 2nd 3rd day and when I said on the tip it was at the very tip....heck at first I thought something was stuck to it...he as rubbing up against the rock with it....1st day it was a little pinhead

I appreciate the input....... and love a good discussion

 

Huh? And what was that about the "tip"?

 

Just my sarcasm :

 

All I will tell you is to keep an eye out for it. Ick will come back if not treated correctly, which means some time in a QT. Hope it's over for you though.