IS THIS ICH??

[Sgooosh]

thanks the fish store does not seem to have it
1. i moved bamboo shrimp to bucket with a spare HOB, with tank water
2. i got one of the nerites to the small tank (ill find the other one, ich x seems to ahve low impact on inverts)
2. i put heater back in

the product i will be using is ICH X
any tips on temp raising?

 

[Sgooosh]

found out the tank params it is 46 gallons with some water missing and the sand
should i dose it for 50g? @Colin_T

 

[Colin_T]

Never overdose a tank. If it has 46 gallons, treat for 46 gallons.

 

[Sgooosh]

Never overdose a tank. If it has 46 gallons, treat for 46 gallons.

ok i did just that
also after a while, the tank is no longer blue...
there is no more carbon filter just fluval filter sponges

 

[Colin_T]

That's normal for a lot of medications. The dye gets diluted and broken down by bacteria.

 

[GaryE]

Whatever treatment you've chosen (I'd argue you did it right), I hope it works. People will often come online and blame the heat treatment or the medications for the deaths of fish, and seem completely oblivious to the fact that Ich in an enclosed area is a deadly parasite. In the wild, a fish catches Ich, the parasites feed, hatch and the fish is long gone and no longer infected. I've seen photos of fish in Amazonia with one or two spots, but not more. Put that fish with one spot in a tank where neither the fish nor the parasite has anywhere to go but to each other, and here we are debating necessary treatments.

I'm receiving tetras today, from an extremely reputable source. But it is April and there is a stressful flight involved, so I'll have my evil chemicals at the ready. The QT tanks are up and ready, with cycled filters, and I'll be watching like a hawk. Ich parasites are always a possibility, even from the very best of sources.

 

[FriendlyGeek]

thanks the fish store does not seem to have it
1. i moved bamboo shrimp to bucket with a spare HOB, with tank water
2. i got one of the nerites to the small tank (ill find the other one, ich x seems to ahve low impact on inverts)
2. i put heater back in

the product i will be using is ICH X
any tips on temp raising?

I can see that you are trying other methods now but for future, or if anyone else sees this thread, the Esha Exit is available for next day delivery on Amazon

 

[Essjay]

It may not be available in the USA though - or if it is it could take days to arrive.


eSHa Exit's claim is that it doesn't contain formaldehyde or copper, but the active ingredients appear to malachite green and methylene blue, from what I can discover.

 

[Sgooosh]

I can see that you are trying other methods now but for future, or if anyone else sees this thread, the Esha Exit is available for next day delivery on Amazon

mine is a very similar one...
i might get an esha exit just in case

Whatever treatment you've chosen (I'd argue you did it right), I hope it works. People will often come online and blame the heat treatment or the medications for the deaths of fish, and seem completely oblivious to the fact that Ich in an enclosed area is a deadly parasite. In the wild, a fish catches Ich, the parasites feed, hatch and the fish is long gone and no longer infected. I've seen photos of fish in Amazonia with one or two spots, but not more. Put that fish with one spot in a tank where neither the fish nor the parasite has anywhere to go but to each other, and here we are debating necessary treatments.

I'm receiving tetras today, from an extremely reputable source. But it is April and there is a stressful flight involved, so I'll have my evil chemicals at the ready. The QT tanks are up and ready, with cycled filters, and I'll be watching like a hawk. Ich parasites are always a possibility, even from the very best of sources.

i must admit something...
i never had a quarantine tank from the start of my fish keeping

It may not be available in the USA though - or if it is it could take days to arrive.


eSHa Exit's claim is that it doesn't contain formaldehyde or copper, but the active ingredients appear to malachite green and methylene blue, from what I can discover.

yeah mine is basically malachite green

 

[FriendlyGeek]

It may not be available in the USA though - or if it is it could take days to arrive.

True, I didn't give that a thought TBH

eSHa Exit's claim is that it doesn't contain formaldehyde or copper, but the active ingredients appear to malachite green and methylene blue, from what I can discover.

I don't know about the ingredients listed but I have used it myself so I know from personal experience that it is shrimp and snail safe - well, it didn't harm ours in the slightest so that's my knowledge of it.
Like I said, we had to dose twice to fully clear the Ich, so I assume if it posed any danger to the invertibrates they would have been affected by it, but they weren't

 

[Sgooosh]

oh yeah for the ich x it says to dose once every less than 24 hours.
should i do that?

 

[Colin_T]

oh yeah for the ich x it says to dose once every less than 24 hours.
should i do that?

That doesn't make sense.

Is it meant to be "dose once every 24 hours" or something else?

 

[DoubleDutch]

That doesn't make sense.

Is it meant to be "dose once every 24 hours" or something else?

I expect what is meand that the intervals shouldn't exceed 24 hours (so there will be a constant level of meds in the water)