[mcarroll]

Originally Posted by mess7777

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-1...ture/index.php

Regardless of specifics, this seems to be everyone's common thread: Treatment of a sick fish represently a failure unto itself - in almost all cases Ich can be avoided.

An incomplete list of possible failures:

• adding a fish of dubious health to a tank
• overstocked tank
• too big of fish in too small a vessel
• no QT procedure (who has space to QT a (e.g.) large tang?
• incompatible fish (regardless of what the books say) being kept together

Obviously, this list could go on.