So I have a very mild case of ick and I bought some medication today, it's called Ick Away by Wardley Essentials if that helps, and I want to know if it will hurt my fish? I have a german blue ram, a bristlenose pleco and a male betta and I need to know if the medication will hurt them? It's the betta and the ram that had the white spots on them. I also have a bunch of snails that are eating my plants :angryfire will it kill them? :biggrin:
I couldn't quarantine them, my parents said 1 tank and that's it for my room and they aren't budging...so I will just treat the whole tank...
Thanks for the link
Some Ick medication will stain your silicon blue 4 EVER!!!!! Try the Salt method. All the fish listed will tolerate it, IMO.
I believe it is 3 tsp per gallon of water. Turn the heater up to about 82-84. Turn the lights off. If you have plants in the tank then try to limit the use of lights . Ick thrives in high light but don't tolerate salt or high temps. I usually add salt at every water change just a bit per gallon. So far it has been 3 years NO ICK!!!!!
Thanks to both of you and I did talk my parents into letting me get a small quarantine tank because I did think I should quarantine and treat sick fish separately and they saw my reasoning
I wish I had seen that about the aquarium salt before I bought the ick medication, I'll use it for now just because I have it and can't go back to the store, but in the future I will definitely use salt.
Also I plan on having tetras in this tank and they don't handle salt well at all?
You do a series of PWC after you're done treating to remove the salt.
Definitely don't add any new fish until you're done treating the tank. Tetras are sensitive fish, period.
With your new tank you'll be able to use it as a QT tank for new fish. For now, you need to treat your main tank, as the ich will be throughout the entire tank.
You've already gotten good advice. But if you had purchase some Rid_Ich+, and used according to the directions on the bottle, it would have cleared up your Ich, not stained your silicone, and would not have bothered your fish, inverts, or plants.
I only say this from using it many times in my quarantine tanks, and a few times in my regular planted tanks.
Thanks I read the article, and Aquarium Salt is the next thing on my list once I get paid I'll add a tetra dose after each water change in the future, thanks all!
I'm not quite clear what you meant- that you're going to start treating the ich with salt as soon as you get some and add it each time you do a PWC, or that you'll add salt each time you do a PWC from here on out?
You don't want salt in a planted tank indefinitely- it will kill the plants. Most plants should survive a short-term ich treatment, though.
^^^ Careful there, Cow! His betta and rams will be fine (his ram will love it), but ottos, cories, white clouds, and a number of common aquarium fishes will suffer (at best) at those temps!
^^^ Careful there, Cow! His betta and rams will be fine (his ram will love it), but ottos, cories, white clouds, and a number of common aquarium fishes will suffer (at best) at those temps!
I mean that as soon as I get some salt I will start using it after each pwc.
I have:
~1 bristlenose pleco
~1 male betta
~2 german blue rams
~3 walking tetras (I think, the petstore had no idea *shrug* but they sit up and they match the picture)
~5 marbled hatchet fish
Are high temps ok for those fish?
Oh and I'm female
I'd raise the temp slowly and just watch the tank for a bit. Try to do it when you're home. Some heaters are not that accurate. They will probably be ok up to around 86. I've never personally gone above 84, but the again, it's been a long time since I owned a ram.
Ok thanks And my heater sucks, it doesn't even have numbers on it to tell you what temp it is? Plus it fluctuates a lot, yesterday I felt the water and it was a little cool, not cold just a little cooler than I thought it should be and the next few minutes it was heated back up! I know it's supposed to do that, but that was fast lol for 20 gallons of water...
Temp swings will bring an onset of Ich faster than anything you can do! Get a good pre-set submersible heater, BE. There are a lot of good ones on the market these days.
I used to use nothing but Ebos, but I have found condensation inside all of my "older" ones. I'm really liking the Visi-Therm Stealth heaters that I have started using. They are shatterproof and built like a tank, but are kind of pricey. But I HATE having to replace old heaters (and there's often a problem when you notice they're dead), and these are built to last a long time.
As for table salt, it's usable, but it has iodine and anti-caking agents that aren't what you are tryting to put into your tank. I've used it before, but wouldn't again.
Are canistor filters the ones that hang on the back of the tank? Sorry I'm new to the terminoogy lol but I do have one of those if that's what your talking about. And what's an "in-line" heater?
Oooooh I get what you mean sorry lol
So it looks like I can't do that then because I have a HOB filter, so I'll just get a submersible one then...I'll look for a Jager do they carry those at places like petsmart and petco? And about how much will that cost?
Im not sure if you can find a Jager at Petco/Smart, but I was at petco yesterday and they had Marineland VisiTherm Stealth heaters, which are decent heaters.
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