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Aha! So I was partly right - the free swimming young have to find a living host in 48 hrs or die. The juveniles can be killed off with high temps as well as the adults but the process takes approx two weeks. Got it. Thank you all. Btw, I'm currently taking a biology course and were studying...

Hmm. All my books tell me that the lifecycle of the ick is 48 hrs. Once it hatches in the tank, it has 48 hrs to grab onto a living host or it dies. Is at not true? I figured a week of empty tank would have killed off the ick. I know that it exists in all aquariums but that healthy fish can...

Cardinal problem I don't believe the ick was in the main tank - of course, once I put the cardinals in it and they all got ick - the whole tank was infested. I fished out all the fish and left the main tank empty for a week which would have killed off the ick. I put the infected fish into two...

Hi everyone: I am not new to the fish keeping hobby but lately I am mystified. I bought 10 cardinals and quarintined for 2 weeks. When I quaratine, I usually put in a little stress guard and a cup of the tank water that they will eventually go into, I found out years ago that doing that...