Subj : Re: ach, ICH!
To : All
From : Dick
Date : Mon Jan 26 2004 06:47 am
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:09:27 GMT, Brian <
[email protected]> wrote:
>For the first time since I started keeping fish again, after five years,
>I have ich! Having had healthy tanks all this time, I'm at a bit of a
>loss. Is it normal to have only some fish in a tank infected with ich?
>My three lemon tetras, the oldest fish in the tank, are covered with
>white spots, but the diamond tetras aren't. I've added a heater, changed
>some water, cleaned the filter, and started dosing with ich guard.
>
>As a related question, is it possible to have a fish tank and not have
>ich at all for a long, long time (until adding one fish from an infected
>tank)?
>
>B
I battled Ich in my 75 gallon tank. It is a lot of water and a lot of
fish to treat. Removing infected fish to a smaller quarantine tank is
much easier.
Ich seems to effect some species more than others. Clown Loaches and
Mollies seem more sensitive. I got 7 Clown Loaches through the
internet. They all had Ich when they arrived. Not having another
tank at the time, I treated the 75 gallons. I wasn't getting any
success on 5 of the 7. The other two looked bigger and better color.
I also noticed the Ich had not spread to the other 65 fish in the
tank. So, I removed the 5, stopped the treatment and let the tank
come back to health. (I was seeing stress in the fish and live
plants) The two made it and none of my other fish were taken.
I use Rid Ich Plus. It worked well for me the first time, but not on
the Loaches. It is useable where the fish are scaleless. A
quarantine tank does have the advantage of limiting the kind of fish
and thus increasing the treatments possible.
From what I have read, Ich is always present waiting for poor fish
health to attack.
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