Ich or fungus???

IceH2O · Mar 4, 2006

Goldfish has something on its tail, nothing on body, no flashing, acting perfectly normal.

Am 0 NI 0 NA 10 PH 6.8

Sorry about pic quality, it moves around all the time.

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Holly9937 · Mar 4, 2006

when did you notice it?? It does kind of look like ich, but it is weird to not be on the body at all if thats the case. I just posted a good disease site, check this out

www.fishpalace.org/disease.html

Roan Art · Mar 4, 2006

Ich.

Start treating. Goldfish seem to show ich on their tails first, dunno why, but they do. Start treating now and get it before it gets nasty.

Roan

IceH2O · Mar 4, 2006

I just noticed it today. Right after I was admiring the 10 guppies we just bought. Figures huh. The ich couldn't manifest itself that quickly so i know it didn't come from them.

I had added some otos last weekend but they have nothing nor do any of the other fish in the tank.

I read the salt treatment for ich guidline. I can't raise the temp, its 78 right now, so I guess it'll take longer to cure.

I took out 1 gallon of tank water to add salt to. Figure I'll add 1 gallon worth every 12 hours. How many tsps should I add to this gallon if I'm shooting for a 2 tsp/gallon medication? I guess what I really need to know is how long should I take to get to the 2 tsp/gallon saturation?

110 tsps total .

Should I do 2 tsp/per gallon per hour or can I do even more than that? Would getting it to that level in 24 hours be to much for the fish?

I can do the hourly thing this weekend, but come Monday every 12 hours will be the best I could add the mixture.

Roan Art · Mar 4, 2006

IceH2O said:
I read the salt treatment for ich guidline. I can't raise the temp, its 78 right now, so I guess it'll take longer to cure.

I had to keep mine at 78* too. They just got too stressed with it higher.

I took out 1 gallon of tank water to add salt to. Figure I'll add 1 gallon worth every 12 hours. How many tsps should I add to this gallon if I'm shooting for a 2 tsp/gallon medication? I guess what I really need to know is how long should I take to get to the 2 tsp/gallon saturation?

I'd do it over a 48 hour period. 1 teaspoon per gallon per day.

I can do the hourly thing this weekend, but come Monday every 12 hours will be the best I could add the mixture.

Get a large tub that you can set on top of your tank. Put as much tank water as you can in that tub, without compromising your filter or the fish. Mix as much of the salt as you can with that (so long as it dissolves, you're golden). Run an airline tube from the tub, underneath the glass canopy or hood so that when you close the hood/canopy it dents the tubing. Make sure the tubing will empty into your outflow.

Suck on the tubing (yay!) to get the salt water flowing, stick it in the tank real fast and close the hood/canopy on top of the tube. Move the tub of water so that it puts pressure on the hose and slows the stream of water to a drip. Let it drip into the tank by itself.

Repeat as needed.

If that was confusing, lemme know.

Roan

IceH2O · Mar 4, 2006

Thanks Roan, as always a big help.

The only problem is i have no tub I could place on top and limited length of airhose, maybe a foots worth right now. I could run to the store after work and get more but for right now its not possible.

I have a 1 gallon pitcher and 1 foot airhose. I filled the pitcher with tank water and added 2 tsp of salt and mixed it well. Then I siphoned the water into the filter outflow. It took about half an hr to empty. Is this to fast? I figure I wait half an hr and start the progress again. That would be 2 tsp of salt an hr into a 55 gallon tank. Probably be up till about 12 so that would put 12 tsp in the 55 until I get up in the morning to start again. At 2 tsp/gallon tank that would only be about 10% of the total needed.

If you guys think 2 tsp per hour is to much then I'll cut back to 1 tsp per hour. I figure at 2tsp/gallon I'll be adding 55 times total which will take longer than 2 days.

rrkss · Mar 4, 2006

2 tsp per hour is fine. I have sometimes dumped all the salt in at once without any fish loss. Doing it the way I just mentioned will shock your biofilter and is not reccomended with the mild ich case you have.