It’s extremely mild. Only one fish showed spots. Should I instead start lowering temps back to 78 or what should I fo
Help! A fish dies every night!
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Hopefully someone with experience in treating both fungus and ich together can suggest a suitable med to use. I’ve only treated them separately.
I’d personally keep the temp down since there is something else causing problems in the tank.
Ok I’ll start lowering the temps again. This is my first experience with both. But so for ich once they don’t have spots and aren’t iching on everything does that mean it’s gone
Not necessarily.
You’ll want to keep treating for 2 or so weeks after you don’t see anymore spots.
When I treated my outside pond in early spring (65F) I treated for a month after spots were gone. Lower temps you have to treat longer.
Not completely. Just like when our symptoms go away for a sickness doesnt mean we stop taking our medicine. If I understand correctly, I believe that ich has multiple stages, and it comes in waves almost. So it'll disappear for a little and come back stronger. When it goes away, that's when it's most vulnerable though. I would say you still need to treat it.
If you really are dealing with ick then this is some really good advice i’ve copied and pasted below from another thread on this subject:
Link to original thread:
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/ick-question.712075/#post-8033668
But from the sounds of it, you could also be dealing with type of fungus, maybe even columnaris as another member mentioned above...
Link to original thread:
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/ick-question.712075/#post-8033668
But from the sounds of it, you could also be dealing with type of fungus, maybe even columnaris as another member mentioned above...
Would keeps the temps down since dosing the paragaurd. Paragaurd works well for ich. Cont with water changes and gravel vacuuming. Remove any carbon in the water. Add some bacteria to the tank as ur not fully cycled yet (0 nitrates). Would post pics of the fish.
Ammonia, Nitrates and nitrites are all zero? What did you use to get this reading? I do 50/60% water changes twice a week and can’t get nitrates to zero.
Just so we get an idea of what's truly going on.
1. How long has the tank been set up?
2. How long was it cycling before adding fish?
3. If fish were added almost as soon as water was put in, did you add bottled bacteria, or seasoned media, or seasoned substrate to the filters or tank?
Can you post a photo of an infected fish?
Did you quarantine new fish?
Its very hard to diagnose without a clear photo.
If fish are dying, please don't buy more.
1. How long has the tank been set up?
2. How long was it cycling before adding fish?
3. If fish were added almost as soon as water was put in, did you add bottled bacteria, or seasoned media, or seasoned substrate to the filters or tank?
Can you post a photo of an infected fish?
Did you quarantine new fish?
Its very hard to diagnose without a clear photo.
If fish are dying, please don't buy more.
That being said, my tank is VERY heavily planted, so my reading are all 0, and it's been up and running for close to 3 years with very few water changes .
My water here is trash and every water change I was doing prior to that 3 year mark was wiping out my tank... Even with prime, i still don't know why, but switched to RO water from my job, and everything is doing a million times better. I only realized it was the water after my 3rd time of something going wrong, and me increasing my water change percent and frequency for damn near everything to die off, then I just left it with no water changes and all the fish that survived went from breathing heavy on their sides to swimming around and begging for food .(and yes it was cycled for 2 months prior to adding fish, and I added only a few at a time as juvies)
