Anyone do bucket transfer methods for ich

[nightmarepl]

I’ve been ich free for 3 years now and definitely don’t want to fight it again .. so i made a good sized ordered online. My general idea was
Snails and starfish into bucket 1 with DT water gently toothbrush the snails and starfish then put them into bucket 2 same thing then into the DT.
Chaeto ima put into 1 bucket for with a heater at like 70 degrees and a grow light over it for 2 weeks or so. Every week I’ll pour tank water in there for the nutrients aswell as chaeto feed while flushing it…
do you guys think this will reduce the chances

 

[horseplay]

I don't QT, but if I did I would use this method.

Ich does not attach itself to inverts or chaeto. So maybe just a shorten TTM is more than sufficient.

 

[horseplay]

I have also used TTM years ago to treat sick fish. It works great and simple.

 

[nightmarepl]

I have also used TTM years ago to treat sick fish. It works great and simple.

Yah you think i should throw the chaeto in with the pods or rinse em off

 

[horseplay]

If I were you I would rinse everything and call it a day. But then again I do QT at all.

 

[Subliminal]

I don’t do qt either.
Of Course my reef is about 2/3 of the way through fallow period after brook started killing every clownfish that went in the tank.
My gosh only tank is full of copper, my rocks are in a Rubbermaid tub and my emptier angelfish died of velvet this morning.

 

[reefsandrotts]

For new fish I've had great success with this.

 

[nightmarepl]

For new fish I've had great success with this.

Wonder if this will cure ich

 

[reefsandrotts]

Wonder if this will cure ich

Not sure,
I thinks it's more of a pretreatment.

 

[horseplay]

what is a pre-treatment?

 

[reefsandrotts]

what is a pre-treatment?

I guess pre treatment in the sense of, more of a medicated bath to hopefully kill anything in the early stages the fish might have. I've used it on dirty petco fish and knock on wood never had a intank breakout of disease

 

[nightmarepl]

I guess pre treatment in the sense of, more of a medicated bath to hopefully kill anything in the early stages the fish might have. I've used it on dirty petco fish and knock on wood never had a intank breakout of disease

I gotta say petco has literally the worst ich outbreaks ever… every single petco i went they infested with it and the workers don’t care cause it’s not their problem so the first they say is it’s healthy… just cause a fish eats doesn’t mean it’s healthy ich will wipe your tank easily i tried everything with my ich fish and they all died so you gotta nuke them with the copper