Help me please I'm new to fish

Thanks Dr Guppy

I guess, just buy a filter that doesn't have carbon and leave it in even while administering the med? I didn't know that you can get filters that didn't have the activated carbon in it. I really don't know where to get it. Oh well. Again thanks for your help.
 
Your are very welcome, and it should be possible to just remove the carbon from your current filter.

Hope it all helps,
Michael.
 
Thanks

I just did that. I cut the filter and poured the carbon out and then washed it in dechlorinated H2O. Hopefully it will work. Thanks again! By the way, the Dwarf Gourami appears to have only 1 ick spot on his right pectoral fin. :)
 
The way you were saying it was a bit confusing. The filter is the who lunit that sucks water up and cleans it. The thing you took the carbon out of it the filter media. And you did the right thing by cutting a hole in the pad and dumping the carbon out.
 
Don't give up! It's not going to be this hard all along. Good thing you found AC, eh! This is a terrific group here.

Still, you have to get a book to give you the picture. Get David Boruchowitz, The Simple Guide to Freshwater Aquariums. Get it through www.amazon.com if it will take you a few days to get to a bookstore. (They'll probably have to order it for you anyway.)

The thing is, you can't put the whole picture together, even with a whole series of posts here. This book is very good.

Come look at Ich information (and links) at www.skepticalaquarist.com .
 
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I've been told that bringing up your tank temperature to 80 degrees will also kill the ick.
 
It's 85 degrees Fahrenheit, but that's not quite true. The raising of temp shortens the life cycle of ich, so they are in the free-swimming stage more often. You still need to medicate for the ich, but you can nail it more of the time with the medication.
 
I must disagree with you childawg there. Ick is denatured at high temperatures of around 28C, and therefore are dead. So it is an effective way of solving an ick investation, and has worked for many people very successfully including myself.
 
My bad. My literature says that ich doesn't die at that temp, so that's what I was going on. Knock on wood, but I haven't had to field-test it, so I'll go with you on that.
 
A temperature of 28 celsius is equivalent to a bit more than 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Ichthyophthirius multifiliis is stressed at temperatures over 86oF, but last summer (or the summer before) I had some Ich after several weeks of tanks running in the high 80sF. My personal conclusion is that a heat that would kill Ich all on its own would be severely stressful to many tropical fishes.

Lipids may be denatured. Proteins may be denatured. But now how would a ciliate be "denatured?"
 
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