Dealing with new tank and ick.

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tyhoward

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Hey all, here's my tank

10g
1 angel
3 mollies

I think my fish got ick. I started noticing a little bit earlier this week, it looks almost like little white air bubbles or pebbles(salt) on the fish, and it has now spread. This morning i woke up and my baby angel was dead. And i finally got to go to the pet store and bought some ick clear. I put it in there and raised the temp to 82 ish.

My question is, i have three mollies, two which i bought together and one that i had before. When i bought the two new ones, the old one bothered them like crazy. Would this make them stressed and more suseptable to ick? Because these two have it the worse by far, the other molly and angel don't seem too bad.

If so how can i help them get along? Get more females?

Also the fins on my two mollies are scraggly and almost gone. Is this from ick? Will they grow back?

Thirdly, the one mollie that was doing really bad,(He is white and i couldn't see the spots on him) is in a breeder tank floating in the tank so theo other can't bother him while he hopefulyl recovers. After i put the ick clear in, i noticed the bottom of the breeder tank has white things all over the bottom of it, is this the ick coming off?

Thanks,
Ty
 
Either ich or fin rot, either way your doing the right thing by treating it correctly, if you see white spots on them, then its pb ich, i had it last week, it took about 6 days to clear, it wasnt a bad case of it though, i used King british WS3 terminator, got rid of it perfectly. This is an effective treatment for White Spot - a disease which left unchecked can wipe out fish quickly. The entire tank needs to be treated due to the lifecycle of Ich (the White Spot parasite) even if just one fish seems affected. It is strong and must be used with care according to the directions. If you have sensitive fish such as small tetras or scaleless fish in the tank, you should add the daily dose in two halves, several hours apart. You should also not use it pre-emptively, only if you see the spots. White Spot occurs in stressed fish, so it is quite common after introducing new fish to a tank, or in nervous fish like some sharks, or when a fish has been bullied or is weakened by another cause. For that reason it's useful to keep this product in your cupboard just in case, so you can act swiftly if you see White Spot.
 
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How long has the tank been set up, and what are your readings for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate? More mollies would help (a group of 3 males and 5 or 6 females usually works well), but you dont have room for that in a 10 gallon. Add some aquarium salt too, it will help fight the ick. Mollies can handle salt no problem, so put about 4 tablespoons into your 10 gallon tank (although they can handle much more).


Edit: Im too slow...
 
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I'm in a dorm, is aquarium salt special in some way from regular salt?

p.s. my albino mollie just died.

Ty
 
tyhoward said:
I'm in a dorm, is aquarium salt special in some way from regular salt?

p.s. my albino mollie just died.

Ty
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Aquarium salt doesnt usually have "extras" (anti-caking agents etc) like table salt. I have used table salt and it didnt seem to hurt anything, but I try not to recommend it because there could be a brand out there that has something in it that might possibly hurt the fish.


Sorry to hear about your molly. :(
 
yea i was thinking about upgrading there tank and getting a few more mollies this weekend, but i guess it is good this happened first.

Will it come back? or can it?

Ty
 
yea that

and when fish grow do there fins grow, like mines fins are smaller than before it got ick.

Ty
 
They can get ich again. However if you keep the tank well maintained, temperature stable, feed them good food, and make sure they arent under alot of stress, you are likely to avoid most illnesses. Yes, the fins should grow back.
 
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