Advise with Ich in cory tank.

[batang_mcdo]

Need advise, i just added 5 angelfish to my cory tank, tonight i noticed that they have ich what can i do? can i use malachite green to treat the angels? can cories take malachite green? i've read they are sensitive to salt.

 

[novembergale]

Try using a salt tonic on the angels. Remove each of the angels and dip them in salt water. To make the salt tonic, remove about two cups of water from your tank and add a teaspoon of salt to the water and mix it well. Make sure that the salt is not iodized and sea salt works best. Keep the fish in the salt tonic for a maximum time of two minutes and return them to the tank. This should clear up the problem within a day. If not, you can repeat the salt tonic twice a day until it clears up. However, never subject your cories to this treatment since they cannot tolerate that much salt.

 

[cichlid2006]

Try using a salt tonic on the angels. Remove each of the angels and dip them in salt water. To make the salt tonic, remove about two cups of water from your tank and add a teaspoon of salt to the water and mix it well. Make sure that the salt is not iodized and sea salt works best. Keep the fish in the salt tonic for a maximum time of two minutes and return them to the tank. This should clear up the problem within a day. If not, you can repeat the salt tonic twice a day until it clears up. However, never subject your cories to this treatment since they cannot tolerate that much salt.

thats terrible advice, your gonna stress the angels by removing them to a salt dip then putting them back into an infected tank. the ich is in the tank water so removing and treating fish like that wont work, its just stressing them needlessly. you must treat the whole tank or it will just keep re-occurring.
read this about treating ich, the 2nd post written by Lupin, http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168667

 

[Waldo]

Mal Green is more for fungus anyways.

 

[Tropicalfishking]

Ok, I had this once, raise the tank to 78-80oF, ich dosn't like warm water it likes cold. you should to really small water changes like 10% of the water every other day, at least that is what I did..... and it worked with me..... If that dosn't work then go to the petstore and get RID-ICH or some other thing that treats ick!!!

 

[Waldo]

Ok, I had this once, raise the tank to 78-80oF, ich dosn't like warm water it likes cold. you should to really small water changes like 10% of the water every other day, at least that is what I did..... and it worked with me..... If that dosn't work then go to the petstore and get RID-ICH or some other thing that treats ick!!!

ich does like warm water, the reason for raising the temperature is to speed the life cycle of ich so you can treat it when it is vulnerable. Salt salt salt salt!

 

[cichlid2006]

ich does like warm water, the reason for raising the temperature is to speed the life cycle of ich so you can treat it when it is vulnerable. Salt salt salt salt!

this is right. the ich will go is you read the sticky that the link i gave you leads to. i have read about some cases of ich not responding to salt and temp increase. you may need to go the medication root if it doesnt shift.

 

[novembergale]

thats terrible advice, your gonna stress the angels by removing them to a salt dip then putting them back into an infected tank. the ich is in the tank water so removing and treating fish like that wont work, its just stressing them needlessly. you must treat the whole tank or it will just keep re-occurring.
read this about treating ich, the 2nd post written by Lupin, http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168667

Hmmmm. I originally got this advice from one of the editors of TFH Magazine. I recently did a salt dip on a sick rasbora who didn't seem to mind it all. By the next day the rasbora was completely cleared and none of the other fish ever got sick.

 

[cichlid2006]

Hmmmm. I originally got this advice from one of the editors of TFH Magazine. I recently did a salt dip on a sick rasbora who didn't seem to mind it all. By the next day the rasbora was completely cleared and none of the other fish ever got sick.

so i guess the ich sticks to the fish leaving the tank like a magnet if you will, leaving the water in the main tank completely clear of the protozoa??
is that what your trying to say?

 

[novembergale]

I was told that protozoa, viruses, parasites, etc., are always present in some form and exist in cycles, never completely eradicated. Only fish under stress or those with compromised immune systems will actually get sick. This is what someone with a PhD told me. I'm not the expert and was just passing along info that has always worked and proved accurate for me.