Ick problems....?

Question

I have tried everything. I read alot online about the disease and treatments for it but nothing seems to be working. I just got the tank a little over a week ago and i put some fish in it and now ick is spreading rapidly in the tank. I cant seem to get it under control. Is there any advice anyone could give me? I am at my wits end.

I have tried Ick-Clear (jungle products) and a little bottle called Quick-cure. Sor far neither of them have worked. The fish I have are:
1 pearl gourami
1 kissing gourami
1 moonlight gourami
1 dwarf gourami
2 black sharks
2 med platies
2 small platies
2 ghost catfish (1 small 1 med)
1 pleco
1 betta
1 golden dojo loach
1 glow danio
1 african dwarf frog
I am apprehensive about putting salt in the tank b/c of the frog and the loach. I have read that they are not very good at handling salty waters. I could be wrong though.

Answer 1

Well, if you don't want to put to much salt in there, especially not the recommended dose, you should put at least 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons, which any of your fish can easily deal with

But you gonna have to turn up your temperature to 88 degrees for at least 10 days to get ick under control
Also do partial waterchanges of 10% every day to keep your water good

Also, i think your tank is still going through a cycling process, since if i read that right, you just set it up last week?????

Anyway, if it's really setup only 1 week, you have anyway, way to many fish in there, for whatever tank size you have, it doesn't matter

You need to do 10% daily waterchanges until your tank is cycled

check your parameters daily
your tank will go through a nitrite and ammonia spike, ones they go down, you will see nitrAte rising
Keep your feeding to an absolutely minimum, any food not eaten after 3 min you need to net out, or your will get more major problems as it is already




Hope that helps
Good luck



EB



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Answer 2

Hi Nuckfut, Ick is easy: Add 1 Tablespoon (=15 ml, or 0.5 oz) of salt per gallon of water. Add the total amount you need for your tank in two or three additions over a day or two. This is to slowly bring up the salt level. Keep them in the salt 10 days after the last spots are seen. When you do water changes only add salt back to the water you replace at the same proportion as above.

After the 10 day period simply stop adding salt & it will gradually be removed by your regular partial water changes. If you have real plants you'll have to remove them to a holding bucket during the period of treatment as the salt will kill them. You can use aquarium/kosher/sea or rock salt but dissolve it in a jug of tank water before adding to your tank. Never use regular table salt as it contains harmful chemicals.The beauty of treating Ich with salt is it doesn’t harm your filter, is completely safe [unlike many treatments you pour in your tank] & costs next to nothing.

Answer 3

Ich has several "Life Cycles" and it is only vulnerable to medication at certain periods of its life. Raising the temp of your aquarium will accelerate its life cycle forcing it to be vulnerable more often but it still takes about a week of steady treatment before you see improvements. If its spreading its likely that it has been in your tank for a while and has taken hold. What have you tried for treatments so far?

List all the fish you have in your tank.

Answer 4

When I treated ich, I increased the temperature of the water and I put some aquarium salt in it. I also tried and change the water everyday!

Answer 5

if your tank is anywhere near sun light that can grow that green stuff in your tank but if not in sun light I don't know.