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[dellabella666]

So I want to treat my tank for ich.

I introduced 6 new neon tetras almost 2 weeks ago. Everyone was fine. 3 days ago 1 albino cory died for no apparent reason. The day after that I noticed what might be ich on 2 of the neons. Just today it is definitely confirmed there is ich in the tank. My platy has parasites on her also. I would like to treat it but I have questions:

I need to remove the frogs and 2 fry, right? Medication will harm them. I don't have a quarantine tank yet. I will go buy one when I get the medication later today. What do I do about the water in the QT tank? It won't be cycled, I can't use the contaminated tank water.....

What should I do? Could the Cory have died because of the ich?

Thanks in Advance for your help!!

 

[Athena]

Oh, well I've always left my ADFs in the tank when I've treated the fish for anything. Was told by the LFS it was ok for them. Not sure if that was bad advice or what but they are fine and I've had them in the tank for about 9 months and they've been through two courses of Protozin for whitespot, two courses of Myxazin (for bacterial infection on a German Ram) - and they have shown no ill effects from the medications at all.

If you have fry in the tank then they say to halve the medication dosage - but you shouldn't have to remove them. My fry survived fine with meds in the tank but maybe it depends on how small the fry are?

Athena