Another problem....

Shannara

I don't know how many other issues my tank can have, but I noticed yesterday and today, on a few of my fish, some spots that might be ich. I will try and get a picture, but I am pretty sure this is ich. I had it once before and raised the temps on my tank and dosed with salt but it melted my plants away.

I read the sticky about ich and it said to ask what meds might work with your fish or which treatment would be the best option. I do have a number of scaless fish and I don't want to damage my plants if possible as they are just starting to make a comeback. While researching on the net I read that IckGuard2 might work?

Any suggestions?

This might explain the issues with my cories but I am not sure at this point.

Shannara~

Gump

I use Cupramine by SeaChem. Great product, if you dont have inverts.

Shannara

No inverts....one of my golden dojo's was up laying on my scrub magnet and its hard to see because he is so fair but there is definately a few ich on him.

If I can't get ahold of the meds I need over the weekend....what should I do? I started raising my temp with the heater but don't wan't to lose any fish over the weekend.

Is Cupramine something most LFS's carry and does it have copper? I try to avoid copper in the main tank if possible.

Shannara~

Gump

it does have coper.

Shannara

Has anyone had a successful experience with products that don't have copper?

Shannara~

Gump

A lot of people just raise temp and add salt. It works fine just not so easy on a large scale unless you want to use a lot of salt.

Shannara

I've used that method in the past with other fish...but I don't think my dojo's can handle too much heat and the salt could irritate all my loaches and possibly damage my plants like it did last time.

I was looking for other options with meds that are safe for my scaless fish.

Thanks though.

Shannara~

Shannara

After reading up on the loach forum I decided to go with maracide concentrate. I have used two doses so far and today will be the third. I also had to treat with maracyn because of a fungal outbreak on my rainbows but as of today two rainbows have died. My water parameters are still looking good though:

Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate a little over 5 ppm
PH still 7.8

The dojo's still look pretty awful...the most ich covered by far. Not sure what killed the rainbows...stress...meds...etc. Two others look pretty terrible, but I am not sure what else to do for them at this point. I am going to perform a small water change before the next meds dose to see if it helps but I am really concerned. Not sure how much worse it's supposed to get before I see an improvement. :(

Shannara~

Lupin

What meds have you used so far? Not all meds are safe to the fish. Rainbows are sensitive to meds.

Shannara

Last week I used Ich guard II for sensitive fish, but I only had two days dosage worth since no one locally had anymore. I then overnighted an order of Maracide after reading up on the loach forum about how it worked with loaches. I performed at least two 25% water changes before switching meds to Maracide and then the rainbows starting developing body fungus, and maracyn was listed as safe to use with maracide.

I posted about this last week because I didn't know what to do for treatment and this was the best I could come up on my own since the ich was progressing so quickly.

If the rainbows are sensitive to meds then I don't know what to do at this point because I would imagine the ich would get worse if I stop medicating. I don't want my fish to die, but nothing I read is consistent on what treatment is best for ich.

Shannara~