[thatguy559]

also it will kill the invertebrates in your tank that is another reason why you take them all out and treat them in a qt. also you wont have the parasite just living the life cycle in your main tank if the fish are not there and then they just die off because there is no food. a lot of methods work but you should not combine them together. each one is effective by itself. coppersafe is what i used and i treated them for 3 weeks with water changes everyday. it was a 30g qt and i changed 4g everyday. then after that i just did the water changes for 3 more weeks. then when i transfered my fish back i did a fresh water dip before i added them back. now they are really happy no sign of the ich. im going to treat all incoming fish in a qt. before adding to the main tank. hope this clarifies everything that was said. good luck