Ick is killing all of my fish!!!

[Industrial]

So a few days ago I discovered a tatia perugiae with ick in my tank. I took him out and put him in a 5 gallon QT. There was another with ick that was dead. I started treating the fish with aquarisol. In the next couple days the ick seemed to spread slowly and I found another dead t. perugiae. Today I just found another dead one and two of my glass cats are riddled with ick. I raised the temp to 82 from 80 in the past two days and have continued the treatment.

The newest dead tatia peugiae has an open sore on his body and one of my LF plecos has an open sore as well.

I am pretty sure that this is ick as it definitely looks like ick. What else can I do?

[KingOfTheDeep]

if they are getting open sores, i would question it being ich. could be columnaris, or velvet. wouldn't be able to tell without a photo. for now i would suggest raising the temps to *86 and dose with salt at 100grams per 20 gallons, i have had success with Mortons table salt.

if you can take a good picture, we'd be able to identify the disease and better inform you on how to deal with it.

[Industrial]

Here are some pictures I could get. The first one is one of my glass cats with the ick.

The next one is the dead tatia perugiae with the ick and the sore.

[KingOfTheDeep]

hm, that looks more like velvet to me. here's a good read about velvet and it's symptoms/treatment. http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/disease/p/velvet.htm

[Industrial]

It could possibly be velvet too according to what I have read. So I will shut off the lights for a couple days. The aquarisol also treats velvet too though, is there anything else I should try?

[KingOfTheDeep]

It could possibly be velvet too according to what I have read. So I will shut off the lights for a couple days. The aquarisol also treats velvet too though, is there anything else I should try?

i'd just raise the temps and dose the salt as i mentioned, only replace what you remove(salt) from water changes.

[Industrial]

I added some salt last night, and one of the glass cats seems to be not fairing so well. I am thinking of moving him to the 5 gallon with the sick catfish and cutting off all light to that tank and just dim down my community tank. He is swimming fine, but he has is turning white in some spots and even more covered in the velvet.

Oh yeah, sort of habitually, when I added the salt I used marine salt instead of aquarium salt. I am used to adding it to my brackish tank when I do water changes and I didn't even think about the kind of salt with my community tank. Would that make a difference? I would think that the only difference is that marine salt has some nutrients that would probably be useless to the fish ontop of the NaCl.

[miss jess]

i was reading an article about the differences between the salts last night and it said NOT to use marine salt in a freshwater aquarium. i don't remember why but to be safe i'd stop doing it

[Industrial]

Yeah, I have a box of aquarium salt, I just haven't used it in so long I forgot that there is a difference between aquarium salt and the marine salt I have been using on my brackish tank.

[Rbishop]

table salt is what you need...

[KingOfTheDeep]

commercial aquarium salt is garbage IMO, just go to a supermarket and pick up a can of mortons table salt. only about 70cents-$1.