Everyone has whitespot!
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/ukdiscus.com/ken_thomson_salt.htmvery informative link, but i still have a few questions.
It says use the salt dip as a last resort only, so should I hold off? Also, I am not quite sure of the measurements/ratio of salt to water. How long should I leave the fish int here for? after it is dipped how would I put it back in the tank? (just net it out and plop it in, or keep it in a quarantine tank?)
It says use the salt dip as a last resort only, so should I hold off? Also, I am not quite sure of the measurements/ratio of salt to water. How long should I leave the fish int here for? after it is dipped how would I put it back in the tank? (just net it out and plop it in, or keep it in a quarantine tank?)
Update, white spots have started to disappear from all of the fish. Have been keepinmg he lights off and the tank covered int he daytime. Looked at all of my fish, and only counted 5 neons. Panicked, recounted. and recounted. and recounted. Nope. only 5. So I checked my filter, the floor, the blanket that covered the tank, nothing.
Found him behind the intake tube stuck to the safety cap.
Most of his body parts had been sucked into the filter, thus tearing him apart. Really gross. I think the ich killed him, he was the one that was infected the worst.
Found him behind the intake tube stuck to the safety cap.
Most of his body parts had been sucked into the filter, thus tearing him apart. Really gross. I think the ich killed him, he was the one that was infected the worst.GRRR found another neon stuck the same way just now...all the other fish are swimming around like they are drunk, and Apollo looks like he is hanging on by a thread. Ember is still going strong, knock on wood. I have this horrible feeling that I'm going to lose all of them, have to drain my tak and start all over.
Should I continue to treat the tank? The whitespots are mostly gone from everyone, only Appolo has any left, maybe one of the neons still has a few. Whenever I treat I lose one. Should I just let nature take its course or keep treating?
Should I continue to treat the tank? The whitespots are mostly gone from everyone, only Appolo has any left, maybe one of the neons still has a few. Whenever I treat I lose one. Should I just let nature take its course or keep treating?
Sorry for your losses, keep on using the med up to the full date, then do a gravel vac and water change, good luck, do you have an airstone running for extra aeration as the high temp and the med, will be reducing the 02 in the water.
No more losses yet. Appolo is the only one with a spot now, so I put him in the quar tank with some ich meds and some melafix for his poor little fins, or lack thereof. Everyone else seems OK, the two neons that were covered in ich died, and the neons and the guppy that are in the 10 gal. currently only had a spot or two when this whole thing started, so I'm going to stop putting the meds in, all it is doing now is killing off my neons. I'm doing a 25% water change every day, and boiling all of my nets, sterilizing everything. Then once the whitespot has been gone from everyone for like, a week and their fins start to heal, I'll get 2 more neons and put them in the QUARANTINE tank this time before adding! Grr I guess I learned the hard way how important the quar tank is!
Hayley
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Hi Orky!
I am very sorry to hear of your losses!!
Just wanted to add my two cents to this conversation. I have always found that I have the most success treating ich by balancing water changes with not stressing the fish too much. If you change the water too frequently you will lose some of the denitrifying bacteria in your system which can lead to an ustable environment (which is never a winner) that in conjunction with the physical disruption daily water changes cause will increase your fishes chances of maintaining the disease due to high stress.
Ich is a disease which is always present in an aquarium but waits for a sickly or stressed fish to become susceptible (it is always helped along by adding a fish that has it). If your fish are healthy they should survive a mild outbreak of Ich and meds should only be used as a last resort, and salt water baths even after that. (ie your fish should be pretty much dead before you start adding salt to your aquarium as it will stay in there until you physically remove it (which can be difficult with gravel etc)
I hope this gives some basic info on Ich and i hope you have more luck with your remaining fish!!
I am very sorry to hear of your losses!!
Just wanted to add my two cents to this conversation. I have always found that I have the most success treating ich by balancing water changes with not stressing the fish too much. If you change the water too frequently you will lose some of the denitrifying bacteria in your system which can lead to an ustable environment (which is never a winner) that in conjunction with the physical disruption daily water changes cause will increase your fishes chances of maintaining the disease due to high stress.
Ich is a disease which is always present in an aquarium but waits for a sickly or stressed fish to become susceptible (it is always helped along by adding a fish that has it). If your fish are healthy they should survive a mild outbreak of Ich and meds should only be used as a last resort, and salt water baths even after that. (ie your fish should be pretty much dead before you start adding salt to your aquarium as it will stay in there until you physically remove it (which can be difficult with gravel etc)
I hope this gives some basic info on Ich and i hope you have more luck with your remaining fish!!
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