I'm liking the way that looks. Unfortunately with a 300gal tank, and 2 doses a day...that's 2/3 bottle a day at 15$ a bottle lol. Minimum 5 days. My aquarium has been holding steady at 81*...so hopefully that should speed up the life cycle some.
Guess I'll head down to Petsmart and pick up 3 or 4 bottles and try it. It says it won't kill my shrimp, snails, crabs, or crayfish as well...which is very cool. Hopefully it kills the Ich lol.
Unfortunately I think I waited too long to start treatment...I put 180ml in yesterday, and another 180ml in today...but the sharks are getting sort of listless and laying on the bottom rather than being active as usual. Hopefully this works though...they're such GREAT fish and it will take a long time to grow 5 more to match them. Plus they have developed individual personalities and I'd hate to lose them to my inexperience =/.
Cris
Edit~ On a side note, they're still quite active at feeding...so maybe there's hope!!
My best anti-Ich treatment ( without plants, snails) is salt and temp increase. Works for Velvet as well. Salt of 1tablespoon for each 5 gallons water and temp up to 80-82.
Well, it's hard to say if it's working or not =/. The sharks aren't very active until feeding time (unusual compared to normal)...they mostly just lay along the bottom or find a bit of current to hover in (I think this helps them breathe...for all I know their gills are FULL of freakin Ich =/....). At feeding time they act 100% normal. I lost one of my black kuhli loaches...unsure of the cause, he didn't appear to have any white spots on him. Water parameters are great. Snails, crabs, and ghost shrimp are doing great, and today was my 4th day of dosing 180ml into 240gal (7.5ml per appx real 10 gallons of water, not rated tank size...base dosage is 5ml per 10gal). I was only running the Fluval FX5 (the other filters have Carbon in them) but today I removed the carbon from one XP3 and started running it too. The water flow was just a bit too sluggish for my taste with only the FX5 running. All of the other fish have cleared of white spots. The sharks still have marks all over them, but it's hard to tell if it's white spots or not (it could be light scarring/residual marks from the spots due to their smooth silvery skin). I'm going to continue to dose the tank until I run out of product...which should be about 4 more days (for a total of 8). I'll make a judgement call then and decide whether to go buy one more bottle for a total of 11 days dosage.
Sure thing! I didn't even look at the date. I'll start a new thread, but would you mind merging the information after I posted into it, or I can quote it all and we can go from there? Just delete all the posts after my original if you like when you merge? I think there's good info here for sure, as it does seem to be working for me.
I have tried this and it works everytime... First step is to get a plate. Using your fish net, remove one of the infected fish from the tank. Gently lay the fish on the plate. Most fish will calm down and stop flapping around in about 30 to 45 seconds. When you fish is nice and calm, using a pair of Revlon Diamond Grip Tweezers, gently remove all those pesty little ich parasites. Then turn the fish over and repeat. Return the fish to the tank. It may gasp a few times, but it will be ok. Just simply repeat this step over and over on all your fish untill no more ich is visible. Wait a few days, then check fish again. If the ich returns, just do it all again. If you happen to accidently pull off a fish scale or two when removing the ich, don't worry, it'll grown back eventually.
