Maracide - Use for 30day for ich?

mademperor

mademperor

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Jul 5, 2007
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The instructions say to use on the 1st /3rd /5th day. However, the inside says that you may need to medicate for 30days.

What do i do after the 5th day? I just have a 30g tank, and the bottle will barely last 3 treatments (60ml/2oz).
 
If you are going to continue using it then you will have to buy more and use it on the 7th / 9th / 11th/ 13th ect. days after that I would think going by how they say to dose it..... I am not trying to be smart I am just stating the odvious

But as stated above...there are other options you can try that wont cost anything or very little if you have to buy salt.
 
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I'm using 1tbs of salt per 5 gallons now. I'm thinking about just doing the maracide for the 5 days then bump it up to 2tbs of salt per 5 gallons.
 
You can raise the temp also. I tried Maracide once, it ended up being an expensive treatment. Just make sure you treat well after all the signs of ick are gone and you should be good to go!
 
mademperor said:
The instructions say to use on the 1st /3rd /5th day. However, the inside says that you may need to medicate for 30days.

What do i do after the 5th day? I just have a 30g tank, and the bottle will barely last 3 treatments (60ml/2oz).
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may need for 30 days
I've used meds with malachite green(victoria green) and treatment was for 3 days..I left it in the tank for 10-14 days(redose the amount of water changes)..never had any issues.
 
If you do use salt and raise the temp it will kill it much faster and be way less stressful to your fish then meds. I would go 4-5tsp to each 10 gallons of salt and get that temp to 83-84 for 5 days and that should take care of things.
 
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