i was wondering if I could manually remove ich from a fish? right now i have a ram in a critter cage, about half a gallon of water, with a bubbler. i blasted it with lots of ridich. shall i operate?
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Wow, I would love to watch that procedure. However, I'm thinking the operation alone would kill the fish. I would think that manually removing the parasites would open the fish up to a variety of infections. But if the ich is so bad, enough to kill the fish anyway, then I suppose there's no harm in trying. From my limited experience and what I've read, rams aren't the most healthy fish to begin with. The trauma should do the fish in long before the ich would.
At best that would get rid of one stage of the ich. Two more stages to go. But I believe that some of the ich is in the gills, so no go.
Rams are really sensitive to chemicals and need warm water. Your best bet is to take the fish out and put it in a cycled q-tank. Have the temp at 88F and add 1tablespoon of table salt to 5g of water. Do no add chemicals unless absolutely needed, but the heat needs to be given time to work as well.