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From my understanding, ich is always present. It only becomes a problem when fish are under stress, weakening their immune system and opening them up to infection.
 
That’s worrying if it’s always there, any fish you add could then again be infected
 
Hi.

From my understanding, ich is always present

Thats what I heard too, Even Byron says it.

However I disagree.

Unless ICH is immortal it cant survive once the tank is treated, I had ICH in my tanks, my stupid fault for sharing tank maint tools. I treated the tank's with heat and that killed the ICH end of story, With no mature ICH to breed how can it come back unless you reintroduce it somehow.

When we had the big floods here in March the temp in my big tank dropped to 16 degC and stayed there for 5 days while the fish were stressed no ICH.
 
Damn my heater doesn’t go beyond 25 degrees, I’ve only got one tank, recently had an ich outbreak and treated it with salt.

It seems to have gone, fish spots have cleared they all look happy, except one that’s sadly no longer with us!

Is there anything else I can do to get rid of the ich?
 

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