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stoopid
09-28-2003, 6:29 PM
Well, all was well for weeks now and suddenly my Keyhole cichlid is covered in Ick, then I noticed that my Flame Tail is 'hiding ' a lot more in the cave. So I watched fora while and the Flame Tail definitely looks sick, and has a little bit of a spot of discoloration on one of his sides. He shakes ever now and then. The Milomo scrapes against the rocks but otherwise shows no signs of Ick/illness.

I'm keeping the aquarium salt dosage at 1 tablespoon/5g, I recently started using Copper Safe in this tank (had been using Aquarisol) as a preventive for such things. That was about a week ago, which could explain Ick... but I though Copper Safe was an ick treatment? Anyways, I'd a tad confused because I thought I was doing everything right and no one showed signs of sickness, then BAM!

The Gipper
09-29-2003, 1:07 PM
I'm not a fan of salt. I've always used the methylene blue for ick and it's always worked.

Scraping without white ick spots could be some other type of parasite.

Keep up with water changes.

stoopid
09-29-2003, 1:54 PM
Thanks, I'll see if I can find Methylene in one of the walmart products... (Ick Guard??)

I changed the water Thursday, maybe I stirred something up...

Probably won't do another until wednesday (don't want to over-stress the fish when water quality's not an issue atm).