Ick In My Tank With Molly Fry!

[ab420]

I have 3 adult female Balloon Molly's and 1 adult male Balloon Molly and about 40 fry (in a breeders net) in the same tank. This morning, I noticed the "salted" look on 3 of the adult Molly's. What do I do? Is Coppersafe ok to put in with the fry?

 

[ab420]

I am going to try to move the fry into a 5 gallon tank by themselves, hopefully this will help.

 

[Boxermom]

Coppersafe is not needed, nor is any other treatment. Leave them in the tank, as everyone has been exposed and needs to be treated as well. Just add salt if you don't already, 1 tablespoon for 5 gallons to start, and slowly raise the temp to 84. Maintain it for 2 weeks.

 

[ab420]

Coppersafe is not needed, nor is any other treatment. Leave them in the tank, as everyone has been exposed and needs to be treated as well. Just add salt if you don't already, 1 tablespoon for 5 gallons to start, and slowly raise the temp to 84. Maintain it for 2 weeks.

Ok, thank you for the suggestions. I am trying to play the odds a bit here:

I moved half of the fry into their own 5 gallon tank, added salt, and am raising the temp slowly.

The rest are still in the main tank (in the net), and I added a small amount of salt (it is already brackish) and I'm raising the temp slowly.

Hopefully the fry will make it. I figure with half in and half out of the tank, if one way doesn't go so well, hopefully the other will...

 

[confusion]

a couple of notes -

I had molly dry in a tank with ich and all made it through without problems. I raised my temp to 86F and worked up to 2TBSP of salt/10G and after a week the ich was still there. I had read that there are some newer strains of ich that survive up to 90, so I raise my temp to 89F (I read that at 90F, bad things can start happening like sterilization of the fish). After another week, the ich was gone.

At temperatures like that, the fish are on fast forward. They eat a lot more (and need to eat more) During my ich treatment, one of my hungry hungry danios found it's way into the molly breeder box and wiped out all but 6 of them . Lesson learned - keep a lid on them when the temp is up.

 

[Boxermom]

At higher temps like that, make sure you have a bubble wand or something to oxygenate the water, too. There's less in warmer water and the last thing you want to do is have them gasping for air.

 

[ab420]

a couple of notes -

I had molly dry in a tank with ich and all made it through without problems. I raised my temp to 86F and worked up to 2TBSP of salt/10G and after a week the ich was still there. I had read that there are some newer strains of ich that survive up to 90, so I raise my temp to 89F (I read that at 90F, bad things can start happening like sterilization of the fish). After another week, the ich was gone.

At temperatures like that, the fish are on fast forward. They eat a lot more (and need to eat more) During my ich treatment, one of my hungry hungry danios found it's way into the molly breeder box and wiped out all but 6 of them . Lesson learned - keep a lid on them when the temp is up.

89F? WOW! That's hot! That doesn't hurt them at all? I keep the tank at around 78F, but I'm raising it slowly since the ick set in, its at 80F right now... so I should keep raising the temp slowly up to 89F? That just seems scary to me I DO have an airstone in there, so aeration shouldn't be a problem.

 

[confusion]

believe me, I wasn't happy about having the temp up that high. Between the temp and the salt, my trapdoor snails died, but they were the only casualties. I asked around to 5 different fish forums and was repeatedly assured that the temp wouldn't cause any long term harm. My tanks are all well aerated and planted, so that wasn't a big concern for me, but yes, it does become more important.

 

[xJake]

a couple of notes -

I had molly dry in a tank with ich and all made it through without problems. I raised my temp to 86F and worked up to 2TBSP of salt/10G and after a week the ich was still there. I had read that there are some newer strains of ich that survive up to 90, so I raise my temp to 89F (I read that at 90F, bad things can start happening like sterilization of the fish). After another week, the ich was gone.

At temperatures like that, the fish are on fast forward. They eat a lot more (and need to eat more) During my ich treatment, one of my hungry hungry danios found it's way into the molly breeder box and wiped out all but 6 of them . Lesson learned - keep a lid on them when the temp is up.

89F? WOW! That's hot! That doesn't hurt them at all? I keep the tank at around 78F, but I'm raising it slowly since the ick set in, its at 80F right now... so I should keep raising the temp slowly up to 89F? That just seems scary to me I DO have an airstone in there, so aeration shouldn't be a problem.

Raising the temp that high for a short term (up to 2 weeks) won't have any negative effects on the fish just as in the wild the temp doesn't remain constant and can sometimes get as high as 90. I had to deal with ich last month and I raised my temp up to 88 for about a week and all my fish are healthy as can be now.

 

[rfisher]

Hi All,

Please excuse my ignorance, but have i got this right. Ich is Whitespot. None of you used any form of treatment other than to raise the temp of the water and put in salt. What sort of Salt?

Rich

 

[Boxermom]

Regular aquarium salt is fine for FW fish.

 

[d3tained]

If I new temp makes such a huge differense i would not have spend so much money on it.

I had ich and got medacine after medacine that did not work.Found something in teh end taht did work.I was using salt at this stage aswell but temp was way to low to do any real damage.

Hope this works for you.

 

[ab420]

So, the temp is now up to 88F, and they seem fine with it, the tank is well aerated and has aquarium salt in it. All of the fry in the new tank seem happy and healthy, and are growing quickly! Thank you everyone for your help, and I will continue to keep you posted!

 

[Boxermom]

Just make sure to keep the heat/salt treatment up for at least 2 weeks. Even if you don't see any ich on the fish, it will still be in the tank and will take that long to make sure its as iradicated as possible.

 

[ab420]

Just make sure to keep the heat/salt treatment up for at least 2 weeks. Even if you don't see any ich on the fish, it will still be in the tank and will take that long to make sure its as iradicated as possible.

Will do!