Possible Ich Transfer...

[Sammy1911]

Hi
i changed my 55G from gravel to sand on thursday and moved a fish from my other tank into the bigger one... i noticed yesterday a fish in my 2nd tank had two whitespots so i turned up the temp (feom 28C to 30C) and waited for the shops to open this morning so i could pick up some ich treatment (king british) the sick fish now has spots on his fins and some of the other fish have signs too. my concern is now for the fish i moved over on thursday although none of those fish are showing signs should i treat them anyway? or would i be doing more harm than good ...?

Tank 1 55G
5*gymnogeophagus australis
8* pearl danio
6* glolight tetra
1* sae
3* bronze cory (1 which has horns - see my other thread and another of these was in the infected tank but is definately not the same as the horny 1, long story but i am confident of this fact)
2* nerite snails
2* albino ancistrus

tank 2 12G
Pair gbr's (male first to get ich)
breeding group endlers
1* albino ancistrus

 

[Skal]

I have treated all my fish for ich when one in the bunch gets sick. I think treating them all at once is the best because sometimes the ich is on some of the fish but you can't see it because it's just starting. Treating them all gets rid of all the ich. However treating them all can cause stress because most ich treatments are a weak poison. Often the blue ich treatments are the one that are a weak poison that kills the ich yet it stresses the fish. So I advise if you do treat them all or just one use caution. Hope this helps.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

raise the temp to 82F and treat with the meds. i would treat all the fish as you do not know what sparked the outbreak. All fish have ich to an extent but they get overwhelmed with it when they are stressed. What are your water parameters and tank size? Stress is often the cause fo it so we need to figure out what caused the outbreak.