Just thought that I would share this with everyone. Two days ago, I noticed the fatal white spots on the tail fins of my three silver mollies. Immediatly, I turned off the filters (they had carbon in them) and dosed the tank with Jungle Products Ick Guard. Yesterday, I saw the fatal white spots on 5 out of 6 black neons, my clown loach had a spot on his tail fin, and one of my platies had a spot. Got water ready for a water change at that point, went to petsmart to buy a different medication. Did a 25% water change when I got hom from work last night, removed the carbon from the filters, and turned them back on, and redosed the tank with AP Plus Cure-Ick (btw I did do half doses for the sake of the loach and the tetras). This morning, while feeding and doing my head count, only 2 of 6 black neones have spots, the silver mollies have less spots, the clown loach is clean, and the platy only has a single spot on her tail fin.
I plan on dosing the tank again tonight and doing another water change tomorrow or saturday. The bottle recommends a three day treatment unless the disease persists after three days, I planeed on doing the treatment with this medication for a week, with 25% water changes every other day.
End of the story, things are looking very promising, no fatalities yet (except for a lemon tetra that got stuck to the filter a day before I noticed the ick, and a guppy that accedentally got pinched with the net when rounding them up to go on the other side of the tank divider), keeping my fingers crossed that this treatment works, and everyone lives through it.
(BTW my parameters are all normal, ammonia 0 nitrites 0 and nitrates 30, temp at 75* <working on bringing that back up)
I plan on dosing the tank again tonight and doing another water change tomorrow or saturday. The bottle recommends a three day treatment unless the disease persists after three days, I planeed on doing the treatment with this medication for a week, with 25% water changes every other day.
End of the story, things are looking very promising, no fatalities yet (except for a lemon tetra that got stuck to the filter a day before I noticed the ick, and a guppy that accedentally got pinched with the net when rounding them up to go on the other side of the tank divider), keeping my fingers crossed that this treatment works, and everyone lives through it.
(BTW my parameters are all normal, ammonia 0 nitrites 0 and nitrates 30, temp at 75* <working on bringing that back up)
