My New New fish!!!YaY!!!

[blue2fyre]

Sigh


Ok for ich you want to turn up the heat in the tank. This speeds up the life cycle so it will get worse before it gets better. You can only kill ich once it is no longer on the fish so turning up the heat makes that happen faster. You'll want to turn up the temp to 84 or so. You can add a bubbler in the tank to help with the oxygen in the water.

Next you will want to add either aquarium salt or table salt depending on what you have laying around. The general rule is 1 teaspoon per gallon. If you have fish that may not be salt tolerant you can try 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons. Devolve the salt in a cup and add is SLOWLY. I would add a little of the salt mixture every hour until it's all in. Then just wait it out. Once the ich is no longer on the fish you will want to continue treatment for at least a week. 2 weeks is better.

If you do a water change remember to add some salt back to the water.

 

[jasonG75]

Noone mentioned taking the Carbon out...Cause I am sure he will apply ICK treatment instead of the salt as we have recommened.

Which brings me to my next POINT..petco's/petsmart's fish 9/10 are covered with ICK. It is a GOOD policy to have a Q tank setup so that other fish aren't infected. Once you see that your new fish is FINE then add to the Display tank.

This is why I buy from a lfs..He Q all fish before selling them.

 

[Alec2cool]

It seems that many of you consider your fish as you would a human. Thats too much. Humans are more important, fish are secondary. And also about the petstores. You're saying a fish should just suffer and die in a petstore early just because your tank wont be big enough when its larger a couple years later? Thats ridiculous, i have no clue how you can think thats more logical.

 

[Taysius]

It seems that many of you consider your fish as you would a human. Thats too much. Humans are more important, fish are secondary. And also about the petstores. You're saying a fish should just suffer and die in a petstore early just because your tank wont be big enough when its larger a couple years later? Thats ridiculous, i have no clue how you can think thats more logical.

The important thing is to not purchase a pet that you cannot properly care for. It's like getting a large breed active dog to live in your 1 bedroom apartment with no yard and never taking it for walks.

 

[Alec2cool]

User_name, most of my fish are juvenile. Put my fish in the stocking calc at the their current sizes and i have 78% stocked. My oscar is 7 inches and he is fine in the 55g, dont try to tell me i dont know how to take care of my fish. i know very well, and all of them are very healthy.

 

[Inka4040]

The issue is, if it's taking the fish a few years to outgrow such a small tank, it's only because the level of care was not sufficient for it to proceed with it's natural growth. Alec, idk about you, but I'd rather die fast and get it over with than to languish slowly in substandard conditions and prolong my suffering before ultimately meeting a more horrific end due to a combination of grossly distorted body morphology, decreased immune resistance, and poor general care. Kind of makes a quick death at the hands of ammonia poisoning or disease sound pretty nice. Beyond that, at your charges that people here view a fish's life as comparable to a human's: that'd make snatching them out of the wild, or breeding them en mass to decorate our homes and offices pretty dang reprehensible now wouldn't it?

User. As for your claims of knowing more than millions of people about fishkeeping, with almost 7 billion people in the world, that would still put you in the lowest rung of the lowest echelon of the scale of knowing things about fish... Just sayin.

 

[jasonG75]

The important thing is to not purchase a pet that you cannot properly care for. It's like getting a large breed active dog to live in your 1 bedroom apartment with no yard and never taking it for walks.

Oh yea like myself...I have a 10month old Great Dane. There are some Great Dane owners that live apartments, however I would be VERY upset if I lived below them.

My Dane is 10 months and 125lbs I have a fenced in LARGE backyard for the boy to run.


NICE analogy

Should I get another couch? They look a little CRAMPED?

 

[Taysius]

Should I get another couch? They look a little CRAMPED?

LOL get them a king sized bed and they will probably both sleep on the same side.

 

[jasonG75]

LOL get them a king sized bed and they will probably both sleep on the same side.

You mean like this...When he was 3 months

:lol:


OK sorry




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[Leginess]

first of all, jason, all of what you are doing is quite unnecesary, your being quite mean, i don't care at all, but im just saying, if you want to have a good side with most of these people on the forum, try stepping down the rudeness level a bit. And to all the rest, thanks a lot, blue2, im trying your method, bc i do have non sal talerant fish, and one more question, should i start adding the salt and stuff after the ick is off the fish???