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There are spots on the glass as well as the fish, but it appears to be ich, and it has a few days' head start. As quickly as you can get it, you need to get an ich medication in there - one with malachite green/Victoria green. It's a bad infestation and it will kill.
All of your fish are infested. It's a parasite that encysts itself (the white spots are cysts) and feeds on the fish. As the cyst bursts, millions of tiny parasites head out looking for new hosts. Assume they've found them.
Follow the instructions to the letter. It'll take time, but you can save the majority of the fish if you act quickly.
All of your fish are infested. It's a parasite that encysts itself (the white spots are cysts) and feeds on the fish. As the cyst bursts, millions of tiny parasites head out looking for new hosts. Assume they've found them.
Follow the instructions to the letter. It'll take time, but you can save the majority of the fish if you act quickly.
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I agree that it looks like Ich.
As my 3 year old granddaughter would say, “that looks ichy”.
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And probably the worst infestation I've ever seen. I have never seen the cysts attached to wood and such, only fish.
Moving them wont do anything but infect another tank you need to medicate yesterday and pray to whatever god you believe in. This is a very bad case of white spot or ich. You will be lucky if the tank isnt a wipe.
Dominick
So this is a good reminder to invest in a quarantine tank and use it for a time before housing anything in the main tank. These pet stores nowadays. SMH
What a drag . Those are nice fish . I hope this works out for you .
Im so glad mine dont look like that i just had to go check.. Lol
Dominick
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Those aren't ich cysts on the wood, just on the fish. The stuff on the wood, if it is wood, could be any of several other benign things...fungus, nerite eggs etc.
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Thanks all. Are we thinking something like this?
www.petsathome.com
API White Spot Cure Fish Medication | Pets
Buy API White Spot Cure Fish Medication | Available to order today & Free Delivery on orders over £40
Does increasing the temperature help in this scenario, along with the medication? I have never encountered ich before.
They say it does as it will speed up the life cycle and make them release from the host sooner which is when they are vunerable.
Ive used super ich cure from api but not that one. Seems to be similar with super ich cure being a little more potent.Thanks all. Are we thinking something like this?
API White Spot Cure Fish Medication | Pets
Buy API White Spot Cure Fish Medication | Available to order today & Free Delivery on orders over £40
That looks good to me. I'm in another country, so brands don't all line up.
In the cyst, the parasite is safe to feed away. Increasing the heat will speed up its life cycle, but you have to be sure the fish you have can handle the warmth. Some of mine couldn't.
A quicker life cycle makes the parasite reproduce, and to spread it has to break the cyst. That's when the med is very effective at killing it - as it fans out in search of new victims. Warmth also reduces the time it has to do damage. Older sources suggest salt, but its function is to make it hard for the parasite to burrow in as it's a skin irritant and the fish will produce large amounts of body slime to deal with the discomfort. The parasites find it hard to get through that defence.
I prefer the mutagenic dyes as they do less damage to the fish and work more rapidly. With such a bad outbreak, you have no guarantees any fish will survive. As a hobby, we have a weird mindset where people blame the med because they got a med in too late to deal with a killing parasite. Uh huh.
I haven't had ich come in for a very long time now, but I always have the meds here. If you treat it at the first spot, it's nothing. But once it's on the loose, it's trouble. As you noticed, it likes to appear on Sundays after the shops close.
It's carried in on newly acquired fish.
In the cyst, the parasite is safe to feed away. Increasing the heat will speed up its life cycle, but you have to be sure the fish you have can handle the warmth. Some of mine couldn't.
A quicker life cycle makes the parasite reproduce, and to spread it has to break the cyst. That's when the med is very effective at killing it - as it fans out in search of new victims. Warmth also reduces the time it has to do damage. Older sources suggest salt, but its function is to make it hard for the parasite to burrow in as it's a skin irritant and the fish will produce large amounts of body slime to deal with the discomfort. The parasites find it hard to get through that defence.
I prefer the mutagenic dyes as they do less damage to the fish and work more rapidly. With such a bad outbreak, you have no guarantees any fish will survive. As a hobby, we have a weird mindset where people blame the med because they got a med in too late to deal with a killing parasite. Uh huh.
I haven't had ich come in for a very long time now, but I always have the meds here. If you treat it at the first spot, it's nothing. But once it's on the loose, it's trouble. As you noticed, it likes to appear on Sundays after the shops close.
It's carried in on newly acquired fish.
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