Giving Baths

[TylerFerretLord]

I've been treating an outbreak of ich in my tank for the past week, but only one fish has the spots.

I was wondering if I could speed up the treatment by giving her a medicated bath? How should I do this? What should I use.

She's a molly, water stats are fine, temp is 78F. I know, she needs brackish, I'm just waiting until I get a new tank so I can relocate my BN.

 

[arvlyn]

I've been treating an outbreak of ich in my tank for the past week, but only one fish has the spots.

I was wondering if I could speed up the treatment by giving her a medicated bath? How should I do this? What should I use.

She's a molly, water stats are fine, temp is 78F. I know, she needs brackish, I'm just waiting until I get a new tank so I can relocate my BN.

If one fish has ich, it's also in the water and you'd have to treat the entire tank to completely get rid of it.

I just successfully treated my 39 gal. with Kordon's Rid-Ich+ and daily 25%+ water changes for 8 days. Didn't lose a single fish.

 

[Musho3210]

ive succesfully treated a tank with just heat and UV and no water changes, IMO much safer than meds etc. I used UV but you dont have to, since you said only one fish is effected, hopefully the other fish can keep their immune systems up and avoid it while the high heat kills the ich, my temp is at 87 F. This is a mild treatment, if it doesnt work, then yes, i would move on to meds, or if it is already really serious to most things in the tank, i would go with meds. But for a single fish so far, heat should work just fine.

 

[blue acara]

Ive used interpets whitespot plus med to treat ich successfully. Thankfully all (100+ fish) were fine. Make sure you dose correctly and have good surface movement. I would med the whole tank so you kill them all. You could just raise the temp to 32 C to kill the parasite but this could stress the fish more than the med.

 

[backtotropical]

I won't add anything else about treating the whitespot other than that i find Waterlife Protozin works well.

I want to say that although mollies will thrive in brackish water, they should be perfectly happy in fresh water too.

I have mollies in fresh water and they are producing fry every 5 seconds so they can't be too unhappy. Brackish water is not a necessity for them.

 

[BigC]

Yeah Protozin for me, but just watch out when dosing tanks with delicate fish such as Clown Loaches then 1/2 the dosage.
Read some info on the lifecycle of "ich"
http/www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cl...;articleid=2421