Ich (Ick?) In Aquarium

[PosingOwl]

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Tank size: 60 Liters
pH: 7.5
ammonia: .1
nitrite: between .025 - .05
nitrate: 1 ( this is what it says on the JBL test i have)
kH: 10
gH: ? dont know what that is
Fe: .1
tank temp: 80 Fahrenheit - 26.7 Celsius

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): White salt like circles on body of clown loach, all other fish normal looking. Clown loach is always hiding in decoration and came out earlier to eat....

Volume and Frequency of water changes: was twice a week, but since i saw the clown loaches with the white spots last night, i did an immediate water change and one this morning....

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: I went to the lfs this morning and bought a ich medication, its called Exit (Heilmittel fur Zierfische Gegen Ichthyo). Its in German. Plus everytime i do a water change i added Tetra Aquasafe, but ran out and now have Clear Water.

Tank inhabitants: 1 clown loach, 2 swordtails, 6 guppies, and 2 bristlenose (1 is a baby)

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): Set up tank with life plants with 2 decorations

Exposure to chemicals: Exit (Heilmittel fur Zierfische Gegen Ichthyo). Its in German.

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I turned the heater up to 28 celsius earlier, thats what i read to do and added the medicine, but i guess it was to late, the first clown loach was swimming weird and looking like it was playing dead( like i seen on youtube) but came back from shopping and he died while we were gone, 40 minutes tops.

Not sure what to do about the other one, since its always hiding, but is eating....

Do you all have any advice about what to do, i have read a lot earlier today.... Will the other fish be alright or will they get this (Ich) as well....

Also I am using a small JBL test kit and bought the Ammonium test seperately....

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Is the nitrite level still between 0.25 and 0.5mg/l, having done this morning's water change? If it is anything but zero, you need to do a massive water change(I'd personally do ~90% if 0.25mg/l or higher) before trying to treat the Ich, it is no good treating the whitespot while your fish have their gills destroyed by toxic levels of ammonia or nitrite.

How did you get the 0.1mg/l ammonia reading? Nutrafin's and API's colour readings go 0, then 0.25 (maybe you have another brand with unusually accurate readings, the only thing I know of that could sense 0.1mg/l is the "Seneye" monitoring device).

Have you increased the water surface rippling since raising the temperature? If you cannot raise the filter output, lower the water level so there is a lot more "splash," warmer water holds less oxygen and Ich will be making gill breathing harder for your fish anyway if they have Ich.

Have I read correctly you have ran out of dechlorinator? If yes, how much untreated water have you added to the tank already?

Your 60l tank is grossly overstocked and unsuitably stocked, you should never have bought Clown Loach, Swordtails; BN Catfish for such a small tank. I hope you save your fish (I recently lost 8 fish to Ich), but once this emergency is over you need to rehome most of your stocking.

 

[PosingOwl]

Is the nitrite level still between 0.25 and 0.5mg/l, having done this morning's water change? If it is anything but zero, you need to do a massive water change(I'd personally do ~90% if 0.25mg/l or higher) before trying to treat the Ich, it is no good treating the whitespot while your fish have their gills destroyed by toxic levels of ammonia or nitrite.

How did you get the 0.1mg/l ammonia reading? Nutrafin's and API's colour readings go 0, then 0.25 (maybe you have another brand with unusually accurate readings, the only thing I know of that could sense 0.1mg/l is the "Seneye" monitoring device).

Have you increased the water surface rippling since raising the temperature? If you cannot raise the filter output, lower the water level so there is a lot more "splash," warmer water holds less oxygen and Ich will be making gill breathing harder for your fish anyway if they have Ich.

Have I read correctly you have ran out of dechlorinator? If yes, how much untreated water have you added to the tank already?

Your 60l tank is grossly overstocked and unsuitably stocked, you should never have bought Clown Loach, Swordtails; BN Catfish for such a small tank. I hope you save your fish (I recently lost 8 fish to Ich), but once this emergency is over you need to rehome most of your stocking.

I use a JBL testing kit, that was all they had at the lfs. I have increased the flow rate and made the bubbles come out more from my filter, I have a filter that sits on the wall in the aquarium.... I have an Eheim Aquaball and heater by Eheim. I ran out of dechlorinator after my water change this morning and i went out and bought some more. I did not know that i had over stocked before i got on this forum, the guy at the lfs said everything was fine for my size of tank and said that fish are compatible with the fish we got.... I didnt know anything about clown loaches before i bought them and am now aware that i shouldnt have.... Wife said that i can get another aquarium in the next few months (if not sooner, the same one i have now is on sale). There is not many people in my direct area that are looking to buy fish and i already asked the lfs if he could take some off me, but he said no....