He is in a 125 gallon with other sharks. How can I cure him? I have raised the temp and added aquarium salt...I've done 80% water changes and he just wont get cured. Its not getting any worse...its just not getting any better.
2007-01-31 15:04:34 · 8 answers · asked by ascloud@sbcglobal.net 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
Okay guys...You can't treat columbians with medication...I need some real answers. I'm smarter than that!!! I need other options than meds.
2007-01-31 15:30:15 · update #1
The temperature change just increases the rate that the ich reproduces. It will fall into the water more redially... You don't actually need high temperatures to cure ick.. it just increases the speed that it will fall off of the body & into the water. The ich must be killed in the water, so if your water isn't conditioned to kill the ich, it will just make the disease spread faster since you're not killing it.
What is the salinity of your water? Most proper ich treatments with salt are like 2.5 to 5 tablespoons per gallon. In a 125 gallon tank with gravel, that's a ton of salt. In my 36 gallon, that was like a whole small carton of aquarium salt and then some.
Also, when you change the water... the ich isn't in the water column... it attaches itself to the gravel. You have to vac the gravel, not just remove the water.
2007-02-01 02:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Invest in a UV sterilizer. These are put on the return pipe from the external filter or sump.
This will kill the ich parasite at the free swimming stage,
One of these, in conjunction with gravel vacuuming and good water quality will soon get the parasites out of the tank.
Have you worked out why this particular fish has ich? If only one fish is infected that fish is usually stressed.
2007-01-31 22:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by sue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i've got by no skill owned a Colombian Shark, yet I do very own a good number of Tiger Barbs. 4 Tiger Barbs would be aggressive to any unfastened swimming fish not of the barb kin. you desire 6-8 in a shoal to calm them down. Your 2" Colombian has longish fins and barbels, they'll assault it. i'm guessing you planned to maintain it interior the tank it is now in as 55gallon is a huge sufficient tank? Barbs and plecos can't proceed to exist interior the brackish situations necessary. something needs to be faraway from the tank, the two the Colombian or the Tiger Barbs.
2016-12-13 05:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try some medicating as well. It can be persistant. Are you sure its ich? Not saying you're stupid or anything, but there are some people on this board who think anything from fraying fins to fungus is ich. Ich is only a parasite that looks like salt crystals on the fins and body. Anything else isn't ich.
2007-01-31 15:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by bzzflygirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turning the tank light off for a day or two got rid of it for me. I agree with G you should gravel vacuum after the ich falls off just to be safe.
2007-01-31 16:41:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ich goes through stages. unfortunately you can only get rid of it in one of the stages. if you can see it on your fish nothing will get rid of that until it falls off by itself. from there it sits in the bottom for a little bit -- which is why you should do frequent gravel vacuums -- and then it mutiplies into lots of little ichs off to look for a host. this is when you can kill it with salt or malachite green or something. unfortunately the stage that is fatal for the fish is when it is leaving the fish.
2007-01-31 15:22:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can talk to your local pet shop and ask them about the problem i know there is ick medicine but i only had a 10 gallon tank.
2007-01-31 15:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by stevieb030369 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to Wal-Mart and buy some ick-cure for him...turns the water blue...stains your hands too..but works great!
2007-01-31 15:11:09 · answer #8 · answered by buggie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋