Ich Or Ntd?

[Raven45]

A few days ago, one of my favorite fish died. (A panda cory). When I found him, he had been picked over by other fish. His tank mates include 1 gourami, 5 cardinal tetras, and 2 other corys. The next day, my tetras and only my tetras had white salt-like spots on them. I thought it had to be ich. So I raised the temp, did a quick 50% water change and ran out and got treatment. Its been 3 days now and the spots have gotten worse, but still haven't touched my other fish. Is it ich or are my tetras doomed?

Tank size: 15G
pH: about 7.0
ammonia: about .125
nitrite: 0
nitrate:0
kH: 140
gH: 180
tank temp: 80

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): White, salt-like spots on my neon tetras. All other fish are acting normal.

Volume and Frequency of water changes: 20% every week and a half.

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: Ich-Attack

Tank inhabitants: 5 neons, 2 panda corys, 1 dwarf gourami

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): 1 "disease free" amazon sword.

Exposure to chemicals: Just the ich treatment.

Digital photo (include if possible): Will try to post later.

 

[ZoddyZod]

sounds very much like ich to me.

is this tank cycled? There should not be an ammonia reading in the tank.

 

[Raven45]

Yeah the tank is cycled. It could be zero, but i have the bottle kind. The lighting always makes is look a little different. Its really light anyway...

How is it that the tetras are the only ones that have spots? And they've gotten worse since I started treatment.

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I'd expect the other Panda to be covered in spots first, then perhaps fractionally later the Neons, finishing with the gourami, simply because the free-swimming form of Ich rises out of the gravel/sand to try and find a new host.

When Ich hit one of my tanks back in February, it was the secretive catfish (Synodontis decora) that were absolutely caked in spots, which all guttingly died during medication (along with Lionhead Cichlid "dad" and one Synodontis nigriventris).

 

[Raven45]

I'd expect the other Panda to be covered in spots first, then perhaps fractionally later the Neons, finishing with the gourami, simply because the free-swimming form of Ich rises out of the gravel/sand to try and find a new host.

When Ich hit one of my tanks back in February, it was the secretive catfish (Synodontis decora) that were absolutely caked in spots, which all guttingly died during medication (along with Lionhead Cichlid "dad" and one Synodontis nigriventris).

The corys are clean as a whistle, and so is the gourami. This is what makes me confused. I know how ich works, and this seems... strange. That's why I brought my issue here.

 

[colleen0309]

I had the same problem a few years ago with black neon tetras. They were the only fish to get it and it got worse before it got better. I removed the black neons from the main tank after the meds didn't seem to help them and treated them in a quarentine tank with high temps and salt. I only lost 1.

 

[FishFanatic04]

I had just ordered in some fish, cories, tetras, and Bolivian rams. The tetras didn't handle the trip and had a bad spell of ich but none of the other fish ever had a spot. The treatment left me with a few dead cories, but they didn't have visible signs of ich.

Healthy fish won't get it as easily, I think if you get on top of the treatment aggressively then it doesn't have to affect all of the fish in the tank. My Rams never got it and are fine.

Stick with one medication and follow the directions exactly. Fiddling with things too much can make it last much longer then it needs too.

 

[Raven45]

Alright, I'm still treating for ich. Maybe some slight improvement on the tetras. How long should I expect to treat them for? The bottle says up to 5 weeks. Is this realistic? S

Good news is my gourami and corys are still in good shape

 

[colleen0309]

You should treat for 5 days longer than you see spots, however long that takes.

 

[Raven45]

Still treating, but my tetras are showing little to no improvement. I feel like they may be getting some fin-rot and my other fish still seem unaffected.

Should I just continue treatment?

 

[Raven45]

Bump. Still gotta find out what's wrong here. Cardinal tetras are still the only affected fish and have shown little to no improvement. Fin rot is present, but again only on the cardinal tetras. Please help me save my fish