My fish are showing signs of Ich and Whirling...

Originally Posted by jsagrav

I agree with the natural approach, but if it doesn't work, try Kordon's rid-ich plus. I am not getting paid for this endorsement, but I have been in your situation, and found it worked for me. I add salt, since the livebearers seem to do well with it, and it seems to keep down the ich, but I have found I usually get ich after buying new fish. One thing nice about mollies and platties, once they started breeding I haven't had to buy anymore!

Originally Posted by jsagrav

I didn't look at your tank, and just did. I see the cats, and crab, and like GweninNM says, be careful if you use chem. treatments. It should say on the meds whether you can use with inverts. and scaleless fishes. Sorry

Originally Posted by fishcrazy1824

It kind of depends on what type of fish you have, some are more sensitive to salt and high temps, like loaches and catfish types, but you need to add more salt. I've heard it's a tsp per gallon. Also your temps can go higher, most fish can tolerate that, but do it slowly. When I treated ich that way, I had my tank up to 85 and the fish did fine

gwen

Originally Posted by GwenInNM

Its my catfish that I'm worried about but I will add more salt...its easy enough to do a quick water change if they start acting out of sorts. I will also raise my tanks temp some more...thank you I was afraid to add too much or go too high as this is my first time trying this approach but you are right. I will be very careful and watch them like a hawk!

Originally Posted by fishcrazy1824

Just add the salt slowly. But you will not kill the ich without a higher dosage. Best of luck. It's a drag to have to put fish through it, but the ich is also bad, so you have to.

Gwen