Ich treatment gone haywire!!

I would have used the salt and heat treatment to get rid of an ich problem personally.However you can use some fresh activated carbon in your filter to get rid if it after your treatment is done.

That "green" is/could be Malachite Green, Known to combat several sickness.
The Blue one may be Methelyne Blue.
Both of these will/may stain the silicone so be carefull.
Also with methelyne blue you will surely disturb your biolgical bed IME.

Good luck

Do you think that this will get rid of the green water? It isn't green from algae it is green from the stupid stuff!! I never use the salt treatment, I always use Ichonex, but I ran out and this stuff is horrible!!!!

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As the activated carbon removes the meds, it will remove the green coloration. Just as it does with the blue, however you will still need something in the tank to kill the ich, so if you don't like the salt treatment, you may as well get used to the stained water look, you need to treat for a couple of weeks non-stop, if you remove one form af treatment without putting another in at the same time, your two weeks is starting over.
Dave

IMO I would toss some carbon in the filter, and do a big water change. Then start a salt/heat treatment.

I tend to agree with Kas. Clowns are very sensitive to all meds. Salt works great for them. I had ICH on my gouramis...and a few on the clowns. Very successfully treated with table salt and raising tank treatment..thanks to Daveedka i moght add!

I also NEVER use the salt thing, as I have read the bad effects that some have had with it. I have also never used Ichonex, either. In fact, in 15 years of aquarium keeping, I've had ich exactly one time. But I will tell you what I used, and a product that I think is a miracle drug.

The medication I last used, after several unsuccessful treatments, was Mardel Coppersafe. I had used several other meds before, and the first killed the fish and not the ich outbreak, and the second fought the ich and also killed my biological filter.

The Coppersafe accomplished tons of things. First and foremost, it killed the ich. And I mean FAST! There was no visible signs of the infection after 4 days. No uninfected fish gained spots after the dose. This is hardly surprising, as the bottle says that the medication maintains an effective level in the tank for one month at a time (also making it convenient, as you only have to dose them once).

I had several species of fish in the tank that normally do not survive ANY ich medications, such as Syds., a tiger shovelnose, rubberlip plecos, etc. The Coppersafe did not harm them at all. The Rid-ich actually burnt the flesh off of one of the Syds and a red-belly Pacu. I noticed no adverse effects on fish health in the tank.

Among it's other attributes, Coppersafe treats a range of infections (not just ich), it doesn't harm the bio-filter (water monitoring showed no rise whatsoever in ammonia), and you dont have to remove the activated charcoal while using this medication, as it will not remove the medication from the water. ANd, as a side note, Coppersafe is compatible with all of Mardel's products, if something else should go wrong in the tank.

Anyway...as you can tell, I can't say enough about this product. Anyway, if you have clown or loaches, this is the product I would endorse.

Ahh but salt and heat works so well and is so much less harmful in the long run. And any ich med that doesn't treat for at least 2 weeks is not the best idea. Any treatment will only owrk on one stage of the ich life cycle. So if you don't treat for the whole life cycle you can't possibly kill them all.

Meds are fine but make sure to actually finish killing all the ich in your tank.

Will using a UV clarifier remove Ich? Is it something beneficial to have and use once in a while... also does it negativly affect any biological bacteria? I'd guess no on the last since those are attached to stuff right?