Ich..yuck!

Hurley

Hurley

aka Bunny13
Oct 2, 2005
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Well you think that being on this forum for a couple months now I would learn a thing or two about quarintineing fish...but I haven't and now im kicking myself.

I bought a male blue ram last week and added him to my tank without any problems. The store didn't have any females when I bought him so I went to another store(not my regular store) on Wednesday to find a female. I added her to the tank with little trouble. Well yesterday (thursday) I noticed what seemed to be a white spot on her. I moved her into another tank thinking that maybe if I caught it early enough the ich wouldnt spread in the main tank. (Now that I think about it the ich is probably in the main tank anyways, right?)

So today I noticed more spots on her, so its definantly ich! I am going to begin treating both tanks but my only concern is that my main tank has lots of plants in it as well as apple snails, and a kuhli loach which from what I've read dont like salt, and I also have bamboo shrimp. I dont know how the shrimp will react to the salt.

Any suggestions other then quarentining my fish before they go in the main tank? :duh:

Thanks guys.
Rachael
 
I would put all the fish in the main tank and just treat that one.

My kuhli loaches are currently 8 days into an ich treatment using salt/heat: 2 teaspoons per gallon of rock salt and temp set at 84'F

The kuhli's never got the ich and have not been bothered by the treatment.

I left my anubia and java fern in the tank and removed my other plants to another tank for the treatment time. I did notice that a couple snails died, but they are ones collected locally and probably could not stand the higher temp since they come from a cooler stream. I'd probably move the snail though if I were you.

The good news is that you can begin treatment at the earliest sign of ich and are likley to have a positve result. I started my treatment at the first sign and have only lost 1 neon tetra and 1 cherry barb. My most sensitive hatchetfish are looking great!
 
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