Ich in tank

How long have you been treating for and with what product?

read this article and follow its instructions, useing it you can irradicate ich from your tank
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39568

I sympathize, Derpeder. Came home tonight to find a big clown loach and a little clown loach flashing on the sand. Got the temp going up, the diatom filter running and chucked in some ich meds (Rid Ich+). Now that I look, I can see it on the bleeding heart tetras too. So far, no signs of it on the cories or boesmani rainbows.

The puzzler is that we've got some glass cats too - nothing on them. I thought they'd be wiped out by ich at the first signs.

Best guess at the cause is the new little bristlenose pl*co we added Saturday. I have got to get a quarantine tank up and running.

i have ick in my tank......... AND ITS NOT GOING AWAY! i've been treating it for like 2 week now and its getting on my nerves

don't move the pleco, the whole tank needs to be treated, the ich will still be present there whether you remove the fish or not. Also, you need to wait until several weeks after there are no signs of ich to get more fish or you will risk infecting them too

Well if the tank has all fish removed and the heat turned up after a few weeks there would be no ich in it at all as there would be no host for the ich. But I agree that treating in the main tank is probably best. You could use this time to setup the 10 gallon as a quarentine tank for the new fish you want to buy. Read the article on ich treatment in the articles section (the heat and salt really work well) and get your new fish in the qt tank and after a few weeks you will be able to add them to the big tank.

Hmmmm? Oh, I'm treating the big tank. No sense in trying to quarantine now. What I ment was that I finally got caught just adding new fish to the established tank. I got a small eclipse system on the way home today. Any new fishies will spend a week or so in fish jail before they go in the big tank from now on.

Other than that, temp's up to 83 or so, Rid Ich+ 2nd dose added tonight and the diatom filters just been cleaned and restarted after a 24 hour run. No one else has any whitespots and the tetras/loaches that do don't seem to have any more than yesterday. No ones flashing at all. Because of the bubble wand (yeah, it's cheesy, but the fish like it) no one seems bothered by the increased temp either.

The silly small clown loaches did come out long enough today to eat all the cory eggs though...

For now signs are looking good, less white spots suggests that the parasite load is at least under control to some extent, maintain treatment and keep an eye on the pleco (make sure you maintain treatment for a week after the last white spot disappears).

Personally I'd get that 10 gallon up and running now just in case the ich persists (some strains can be annoyingly stubborn). Assuming you're using a typical ich medication, It's a lot easier to effectvely treat ich in a bare bottom hospital tank due to the reduced organic load, ease of cleaning and more precise water capacity estimates compared to a typical community aquarium. Without the fish in the 55g, you're pretty free to treat that with methods that would be deadly to fish. In this case increasing the temp to 90F or higher should clear the 55g tank long before the pleco has had a white spot free week in the hospital tank under treatment (you can medicate or add salt to the fishless 55g also if you like).

Remember though that the move will stress the fish and established bio-filtration in the 10g will help immensely, so don't jump in quite yet and if the pleco keeps responding well, stay with what you're doing.

Oh and lastly if you're using a medication containing malachite green, keep the tank lighting off except for observation and feeding times as bright light will accelerate its half life (break it down quicker).

TAKE THE WATER OUT AND CLEAN THE TANK WITH WATER NO SOAP OR WINDEX