Ick...using Medicine How To Properly Treat After 3Rd Day?

[watertown28]

Long story short, my 30 gallon tank has Ick.

The stock is 4 emperor tetra, 3 neons, 2 guppies.

This will be my 5th day of dosage for this.

I am using AP quick cure. I could not find jungle 2 for it. The directions for this stuff is half does for tetras. Its one drop per gallon for other fish or 1 drop per 2 gallons with tetras. I been doing the 1 drop per 2 gallons.

Anyways, on the before using the 4th dose, I did a 12 gallon water change and then added the dose. I have added one more does to it sense then . So tomorrow is the 6th dose. It did not give any other directions outside after the 3rd day do a water change before adding new dose... well... okay ick does not go away in a few days.


Yes, it seems to be working, the spots are disappearing for the most part... had a new fish seem to get it a few days ago, but for the most part everything seems to be slowing down... I know you can not kill it in a day or two and I need to keep medicating... but would it be safe to do another 12 gallon water change and then add medicine and do this every 2 doses until the ick goes away?

Also I have tried to raise my temp in the tank and sadly, I can not for the life of me get it above 76F. I have salt too so if I need to use this along with the meds would that help? I was thinking I TEASPOON per gallon.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

This will depend very much on the medication, for instance Waterlife's Ich treatment (Protozin) does not decompose quickly so the daily dosages build up the concentration of the active ingredients each time doses of Protozin are added to the tank, so water changes are not normally done during treatment.

 

[watertown28]

This will depend very much on the medication, for instance Waterlife's Ich treatment (Protozin) does not decompose quickly so the daily dosages build up the concentration of the active ingredients each time doses of Protozin are added to the tank, so water changes are not normally done during treatment.

Yeah I have done a half treatment each day and change 20% every other day. Seems to be clearing up. The fish (guppie mostly black ) spots have cleared with the rest of the fish clearing with only a few spots here and there. My emporer tetras now gained back most of the color which leads me to think that they are not as stressed as they once were.

Ill keep updating . Hope about another week worth will do it. I plan on treatment a few days after all spots are cleared.

 

[watertown28]

"Sigh" now the guppies look fine... one of the neons has it bad now.

I figured to up the dose to 17 drops of the AP QuIck cure. See how the fish respond to that.

I may do a every third day 20% water change instead of every other day. I am not sure what is going on here. This has been going on from the 10th according to my records ( yes I keep records! Hard to recall what exactly happens when with multiple tanks )this is 12 days and was for sure it would be on the tail end of it by now and just treating water to make sure... not the case right now again

 

[Scales9]

I had the same problem when I treated my community tank, I think I was on day 3 of no spots when I noticed one on my neon, it is the most frustrating thing to be dealing with as the only thing you can do is keep treating, keep changing the water and wait...your doing everything that you can you just have to give it time.

 

[watertown28]

I had the same problem when I treated my community tank, I think I was on day 3 of no spots when I noticed one on my neon, it is the most frustrating thing to be dealing with as the only thing you can do is keep treating, keep changing the water and wait...your doing everything that you can you just have to give it time.

Well not sure what happen but the 2 neons that got the ick died

I guess the meds stressed them.

IMO, neons are not going into any tank of mine for a long while if ever. I have lost a total of 5 so far in the few months I have been keeping fish.

 

[Scales9]

I had the same problem when I treated my community tank, I think I was on day 3 of no spots when I noticed one on my neon, it is the most frustrating thing to be dealing with as the only thing you can do is keep treating, keep changing the water and wait...your doing everything that you can you just have to give it time.

Well not sure what happen but the 2 neons that got the ick died

I guess the meds stressed them.

IMO, neons are not going into any tank of mine for a long while if ever. I have lost a total of 5 so far in the few months I have been keeping fish.

Sorry for your losses, it is so hard especially as you are doing everything you can for them......