[Carole]

In my experience ich can live in a tank, it could have come in with the shrimp as a hitchiker for example. It does not really want to kill the fish, it needs them. But if something is not making the fish happy, and it gets stressed, that’s when they begin to attack. They will often jump onto, then off a fish. There are also different stages to their life cycle, and I may need to leave that tank fishless for awhile. I purchased the gouramis, and the shop was keeping them mixed with other types of fish, and in tapwater. I have been slowly adding RO water to gradually reduce the PH.