Help I have ick?

Question

I stupidly put some minnows from the pet store in my fishtank for my little catfish knowing that I've got ick from that before. within 24 hours I noticed my 5 clown loaches are infested, I have had ick 3 times before and I have always used this stuff called clout it is little blue pills you dissolve in a cup of water then put in tank, 24 hours later it's gone. Yesterday I put one pill per 10 gallons as it calls for. which is only 2 pills, today they have not gotten any better or worse, the directions say to do a second dose as needed, so today I put 3 pills in, and so far nothing. It looks as if everything in the tank has ick, rocks, piece of wood, ornaments, everything has white spots. Anyone got some advice

Answer 1

Clout is an excellent medication and will kill ich, no question about it. You do need to be quite careful not to overdose however or it can cause serious problems. I would suggest you do the following to continue the Clout treatment.

First, change at least 1/2 the water and clean the gravel well as you remove the old water. Place carbon in your filter to remove the remaining Clout. After a few hours, remove the carbon from the filter and use the recommended dose of Clout in the tank and increase the temperature of the tank to 88-90F. This will speed up the ich lifecycle and help the Clout get the job done. Don't expect instant results, even with something as good as Clout. It can take a week or more to kill the ich in the tank, in fact, I would suggest you follow the guideline of treating for 5-7 days after you see the last white spot on any fish.

BTW, the white stuff on anything other than the fish is not ich. It's probably excess medication coming out of the water.

If you still have problems with the ich after a week of treatment, be sure to drop me a line and we'll go from there into a different treatment, but I would expect it to be taken care of by then.

MM

Answer 2

Okay, slowly raise the temperature of the tank, but don't go any higher than 80 degrees. Also, add some aquarium salt, a little bit at a time, in increasing amounts over a week until you reach the ammount instructed on the package. This probably isn't the best time to tell you, but Clown Loaches get about a foot long and will outgrow your 20 gallon tank pretty quickly. If you have had them for more than a year and a half, they are probably permanently stunted, which means you are killing them and it is too late to stop it. Find somebody who has a 100+ gallon tank with room (after you get rid of the ick problem of course!). Good luck, and I'm sorry to hear about your diseased tank!

Nosoop4u

Answer 3

Looks like your treatment wasn't working. I would do a large water change and then try a product called Ick Clear by Jungle Lab. Last time I treated my tank for 2 days (1 tablet per 10 gallon). My fish got better and then on the 3rd day I did a 25% water change and use salt only (The ratio of salt you need is 1 teaspoon for every for every 5 gallons of water. ). Continue the water change (about 10-15% everyday) until the ick has cleared. Please don't forget to add in the salt when you do a water change.

Ick should be resolved in 7-10 days and is brought on by stress, so whenever you do the weekly water changes, add some more stress coat to the water. Try cutting up a few pieces of zucchini and feeding that...but take it out after 5 hours so it doesn't go rancid on you. Hope this helps you further.

Answer 4

particular goldfish could have Ick. It appears like salt is on your fish. the medicine that I actual have used interior the previous is speedy scientific care. you will possibly desire to purchase it at any fish shop or Walmart. yet there are a number of diverse manufacturers that do a similar ingredient. Ick does not look as though cotton. If that's what it appears like your fish has columnaris. it relatively is a fungus that grows on the fish often on their fins. If that's what you have try Binox it relatively is a product from Jungle Laboratories. With any drugs examine the instructions. Bionx does not effect scaleless fish. Scaleless are any sort of tetra and any sort of catfish.

Answer 5

Due to the life cycle of ich, resolution won't occur overnight (ich is only vulnerable in it's free swimming form; while it is on the fish or on the substrate, and within protective cysts, it is near impervious to meds).

Effective treatment should occur over 10-21 days.

Clown loaches are particularly prone to ich (and sensitive to ich medication). Once this current bout of ich is resolved, refrain from any action which will introduce ich into your tank (i.e., refrain from providing feeder fish and utilize a quarantine tank with new tank additions).

The 'ich' you believe you're seeing on rocks and other ornaments is most likely not ich (perhaps a fungus or similar malady).

Answer 6

http://www.fishvet.com/Freshwater_ich.htm
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1791&articleid=2421

Salt and Malachite Green (a common ingredient in ich treatments) is bad news for loaches.

Answer 7

no no no and no ....you need to put in a all new stuff plus you need to buy stuff thats actually called ick in the tank beforeeeee clean tank