ATTENTION ALL MFKERS!!!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
first of all, your dad really is a fool. Just thought I'd state the already known, I'm good like that. Second of all, The thread is correct, all that should be needed is some kind of salt. My fish got ich a couple weeks ago, and I had the fastest results doing a 20% water change every two days, with 1 tablespoon to 5 gal. of aquarium salt, but I was also using an ich treatment. If your going to use an ich treatment, I would use something like jungle products ich guard II, just because of the loaches, but it really isn't nessecary to use it, just helps speed things up a bit. I don't have near the years in this that some of our fellow fish lovers do, but that's what's worked for me. Hope I was able to help.
 
OMG!!! What was the temperature to start with? When you add heaters, the temp should be raised by no more than 2 to 3 degrees F a day. Raising the temp too quickly will shock your fish and any that were weak from the disease can suffer renal failure from the temp shock and die. Your biofilter is also affected by temperature. Drastic changes will kill off scores of bacteria and then the filter will not be able to cope with the added wastes from the fish. These added wastes come from increased metabolism from the increase in temperature.
Stop the temp increase now and drop in an air stone. Fresh water, at 72 degrees holds less than 6% dissolved O2. Increasing the temp will decrease the dissolved O2 quite a bit.
 
Oddball said:
OMG!!! What was the temperature to start with? When you add heaters, the temp should be raised by no more than 2 to 3 degrees F a day. Raising the temp too quickly will shock your fish and any that were weak from the disease can suffer renal failure from the temp shock and die. Your biofilter is also affected by temperature. Drastic changes will kill off scores of bacteria and then the filter will not be able to cope with the added wastes from the fish. These added wastes come from increased metabolism from the increase in temperature.
Stop the temp increase now and drop in an air stone. Fresh water, at 72 degrees holds less than 6% dissolved O2. Increasing the temp will decrease the dissolved O2 quite a bit.
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you could have told me that sooner :mad:

ive alway had an airstone in my tank, i just turned the pump up alittle more than it usually is.
 
BTW, that red you're seeing in the fish means the same as in humans. That's a symptom of heat stress. When the body overheats it routes blood away from the vital organs and sends it to the surface of the skin in an effort to cool the blood and draw heat away from the body. The increased activity of the fish is a normal response to elevated temps. The fish is trying to find a path away from the heat. In the wild this would be seen when shore fish move out from shore when the surface water temp gets too high.
 
Oddball said:
BTW, that red you're seeing in the fish means the same as in humans. That's a symptom of heat stress. When the body overheats it routes blood away from the vital organs and sends it to the surface of the skin in an effort to cool the blood and draw heat away from the body. The increased activity of the fish is a normal response to elevated temps. The fish is trying to find a path away from the heat. In the wild this would be seen when shore fish move out from shore when the surface water temp gets too high.
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NOoOoOoOoO, he got that BEFORE i put the heaters in their, im thinking it is the medicine that I DID NOT WANT IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!

just wanted to clear that up :)
 
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