The Great Ich Academic

[tetras4me]

well my freind gave me some fish 1 x-ray tetra 1 neon tetra 4 zebra dainios and a dimond tetra
so after a couple of days i noticed the zebra dainio had a few white spots on it i didnt really think about it but a few days later a lot of my fish had it i put some medicine in and all it did was cloud the water so the fish that had it all died this morning....

R.I.P
2 black neon tetra

1 glowlight tetra

2 neon tetra

1 x-ray tetra

 

[Bignose]

my condolences for the lost fish, but you've got to use the right word in your title. The word you used completely and totally changes what you meant:

my guess is you meant:
ep‧i‧dem‧ic 
–noun 3. a temporary prevalence of a disease.
4. a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.

and not
ac‧a‧dem‧ic 
–adjective 1. of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.
2. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
5. conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
6. acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
7. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
–noun 8. a student or teacher at a college or university.
9. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
10. (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
11. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.

 

[ImperfectFaerie]

Wow, that killed them fast. Curious, what medacine did you use? Maybe it did more harm than good?

 

[voo]

How are you planning on treating the rest of the tank? Ich is water-borne and in the substrate too. So whilst you cant see it on any fish, it's probably still there.

Are any of the other fish flicking themselves against objects? Or have white spots on them? Be quick to treat else you may lose more unfortunately