Today I used Aquarisol for an ick/fungus problem. I have 3 Apple snails which I removed and are sitting in a bucket. Will I ever be able to put them back? Will they tolerate the Aquarisol? Also do they carry the ick parasite? I was wondering if I could put them in my son's 10 gallon.
Used Aquarisol, what to do with Apple Snails
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I have heard that they carry the ich parasite (among others). Your best bet is to keep the separated from the fish for a solid month (the bucket is fine, just toss in a flake *or two* of food every couple of days). This should assure that the ich won't be brought back in since there are no fish in the bucket. Be sure NOT to put the water from the bucket into the freshly cured tank.
Note that you need to find out why you wound up with ich in the first place. In the wild, fish almost never get serious infestations of it. Make sure your pH is the proper range for your particular fish (snails don't care) and that ammonia and nitrite are 0. These things, when out of whack, will stress fish and make them easy prey for parasites like ich.
Aquarisol will do the trick, but I prefer either Quick Cure or plain old uniodized salt. Quick cure works faster but stains the silicone permanently blue (looks appropriate for a tank anyhow). When done treating the tank (follow instructions on either med), change 30-40% of the water and add some activated carbon to the filter. This will remove the medication from the water overnight. Then add the snails after a one-month quarantine (or if you're French, eat'em).
Note that you need to find out why you wound up with ich in the first place. In the wild, fish almost never get serious infestations of it. Make sure your pH is the proper range for your particular fish (snails don't care) and that ammonia and nitrite are 0. These things, when out of whack, will stress fish and make them easy prey for parasites like ich.
Aquarisol will do the trick, but I prefer either Quick Cure or plain old uniodized salt. Quick cure works faster but stains the silicone permanently blue (looks appropriate for a tank anyhow). When done treating the tank (follow instructions on either med), change 30-40% of the water and add some activated carbon to the filter. This will remove the medication from the water overnight. Then add the snails after a one-month quarantine (or if you're French, eat'em).
I know where the Ick came from - LFS. I know they have been struggling to control stuff. I really like the people and believe they are very sincere. They just bought the store this summer. I'm starting to think though that I may know more than they do which is really scary since I am just a beginner. My water conditions are perfect, nitrate 20pp or less, 0 nitrite, 0 ammonia, steady 78 degrees (although I am raising it now). My conditions have been like this for awhile, started my tank before Thanksgiving. I seem to have had really bad luck lately with the fish I have been getting. They have all come from the same LFS and weird thing is they all seem to die from different stuff. Neon Gourami, quit eating after 4/5 days then died 3/4 days later, silver lyretail molly seemed to have mouth fungus, died within a week and only 2 days of really showing symptoms (ended up looking like something stuck in her mouth), 5 of 10 neon tetras just crashed in 24 hours of getting them, and now another silver mollie is hanging around the top with ick along with 2 lyretail swords who have ick, one I only got yesterday! And I think my big male marigold hifin lyretail sword
who is gorgeous is not gonna make it. He has milky looking skin and milky white and redness around his gills. I've had him awhile.
So, I am really a Newbie, and trying to figure out the best thing to do, or best product, well I really feel like I am shooting in the dark. I noticed some of my fish flashing off the driftwood last week and added a T per 5 gallons of salt. Don't know if it helped any or not.
So, there is my sad story.... Now, I will not be getting any more fish till this gets cleared up, and will probably invest in a quarrentine tank after this, but jeeez, what a mess!
who is gorgeous is not gonna make it. He has milky looking skin and milky white and redness around his gills. I've had him awhile.
So, I am really a Newbie, and trying to figure out the best thing to do, or best product, well I really feel like I am shooting in the dark. I noticed some of my fish flashing off the driftwood last week and added a T per 5 gallons of salt. Don't know if it helped any or not.
So, there is my sad story.... Now, I will not be getting any more fish till this gets cleared up, and will probably invest in a quarrentine tank after this, but jeeez, what a mess!
DO NOT PUT THE SNAILS IN THE AQUARISOL!!!!!
Please, unless you want them dead. Aquarisol, like most medications is a copper based medication. It kills the parisites pretty good, unfortunately, it kills inverts also. Your snails are inverts. So are shirmp, lobsters, crabs, clams...... having some of the cool aquaium creatures requries the owner to be extra dilligent.
Also, if I rember right, Carbon filtration will not remove copper effectively. I may be wrong here, someone correct me if I am please! The only real effective way to remove the treatment is to do a 100% water change. That may not even get all of it. You would have to get a copper test to make sure that the water is safe. ANY copper in the water is toxic to the snails.
Please, unless you want them dead. Aquarisol, like most medications is a copper based medication. It kills the parisites pretty good, unfortunately, it kills inverts also. Your snails are inverts. So are shirmp, lobsters, crabs, clams...... having some of the cool aquaium creatures requries the owner to be extra dilligent.
Also, if I rember right, Carbon filtration will not remove copper effectively. I may be wrong here, someone correct me if I am please! The only real effective way to remove the treatment is to do a 100% water change. That may not even get all of it. You would have to get a copper test to make sure that the water is safe. ANY copper in the water is toxic to the snails.
Unfortunatley you will never know if all the copper if out completley. Water changes might do it or they might not. After the treatment is done and the ich is gone (a few weeks of treatment will be needed, read the article in the article forum) then I would add the snaisl back one at a time. Let one stay in there for a week and see how it does. Then add another.
Unfourtunatly once you use copper, it takes a really long time to remove it.
When treating for ick you don't need meds, use 1 tablespoons of aquarium salt per 5 gallons and crank the heat up to 86f for 7 days. usually that does the trick. Meds are a last resort thing and should never be taken lightly. Copper meds are as likely to kill your fish as they are the virus.
When treating for ick you don't need meds, use 1 tablespoons of aquarium salt per 5 gallons and crank the heat up to 86f for 7 days. usually that does the trick. Meds are a last resort thing and should never be taken lightly. Copper meds are as likely to kill your fish as they are the virus.