My tank has ICH

[doubletail]

ok it said to leave it in unplugged for 15 min... didnt do that :lipssealedsmilie:just put it in and plugged I assumed it was like my other heater which said to just put it in and plug it. Lesson learned read instructions first

I understand it takes time with fishes

 

[Bk718]

ok it said to leave it in unplugged for 15 min... didnt do that :lipssealedsmilie:just put it in and plugged I assumed it was like my other heater which said to just put it in and plug it. Lesson learned read instructions first

I understand it takes time with fishes

trial and error.. lets just hope one learns from the mistakes..

 

[Bk718]

another lesson learned.. put newly bought fish in a quarantine tank.. introduced 3 silver dollars today in my tank and now 6-7hrs later i think i spotted a tiny white spot on one of the dollars.. Ich treatment here we go again..

 

[wakemenow]

Ich Resource

I just found this interesting article on options for treating ich. It covers using salt and popular chemical treatments.

 

[doubletail]

dam dude that sucks which reminds me got to read up on quarintine tanks

Read the article it sucks that ICH is always present in the tank so ICH can happen anytime huh? and wh is ICH always in the tank ?

 

[Bk718]

dam dude that sucks which reminds me got to read up on quarintine tanks

Read the article it sucks that ICH is always present in the tank so ICH can happen anytime huh? and wh is ICH always in the tank ?

and then i read ich is not always present in the tank, most of the time fish get ich when you introduce a new fish/plant

 

[wakemenow]

Ich is a parasite commonly found in most aquariums. There's a lot of discussion as to whether it just lies dormant or if it has to be introduced, so I'm sure you'll find plenty of conflicting info out there. What we do know is that fish can get it from direct exposure and in times of stress. For whatever reasons, stress makes them susceptible to these parasites.

Personally, I prefer the increased temperature and salt treatment. The chemicals can be damaging to plants and invertebrates.

 

[Lupin]

The dormancy myth has been crushed by this website. Even I could not find the logic in how the ich parasites can stay dormant when they die without any host to feed on.:shakehead:

Only the trophont can persist "dormant" in the aquarium, though it's never free-living but always attached inconspicuously to a host, perhaps on a gill surface.

There is no "dormant" independent, long-term encysted life stage separate from a host fish for Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.

Ich myth. ...now you have no excuse for imagining that Ich has a dry spore stage that gets blown through the air and settles on the water, or that it can be transported in an aerosol mist or on a net that has air-dried overnight: "its spores are everywhere. in your tank. on your hands" writes a respected and usually knowledgable aquarist ...but you have no excuse for fearing that Ich is always lurking in your tank water, or even in your drinking water, or that it lies low in the gravel, dormant but just waiting for a cold spell to burst into action, etc etc... all Beemer: Bogus Misinformation Endlessly Repeated. Most Beemer isn't pure invention, but is based on some misinterpretation or mis-hearing of fact. If you keep a steady grip on the facts of Ichthyophthirius life stages, you may even be able to disentangle the particular misunderstanding that's at the root of each particular Ich myth.

It's possible that the myth of Ich "lying low" in the aquarium in an imagined "dormant" stage, may have come from confusing Ichthyophthirius multifiliis with a similar marine ciliate parasite called Cryptocaryon irritans. People like to call Cryptocaryon "Ich's marine counterpart." In marine aquaria, I'm told, Cryptocaryon (which means "hidden spore") can remain infective for up to thirty days, especially at low temperatures! If this is true, it's an insidious parasite, and much more difficult to eliminate than our familiar freshwater ciliate. But perhaps a habit of confusing the two--— by calling them each other's "counterparts"--— has helped create the myth of a counterpart "dormant" life stage for Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.

 

[Bk718]

Ich is a parasite commonly found in most aquariums. There's a lot of discussion as to whether it just lies dormant or if it has to be introduced, so I'm sure you'll find plenty of conflicting info out there. What we do know is that fish can get it from direct exposure and in times of stress. For whatever reasons, stress makes them susceptible to these parasites.

Personally, I prefer the increased temperature and salt treatment. The chemicals can be damaging to plants and invertebrates.

:iagree:

 

[doubletail]

The dormancy myth has been crushed by this website. Even I could not find the logic in how the ich parasites can stay dormant when they die without any host to feed on.:shakehead:

I was thinking about that at work but to make sure in general they are introduced in someway...

I agree with increased temp and salt also dont like to mess with chemicals and fish...

today was a feeding day for my fish butnone of them ate anything had to take all the flakes out the betta was on the bottom by a fake plant and the neons where sepeated in groups of 2 most of them on the bottom also... not having a good feeling now :nilly:

DT