HELP!!
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I REALLY need to know if Jungle brand "fungus clear tank buddies" are scaleless fish invertibrate and plant safe. 
I would normally say salt and heat but with plants thats another story. If it was me i would look into "ridich". Check the website and see what they say, or wait for an MFK pro to make all of your troubles go away.....dont fret too much, ich isnt that bad.
Howdy,
Look up the ingredient list. If it contains copper in any form (likely) then it'll be hard on scale-less fish but okay with your plants.
If it contains malachite green and you dose it according to instructions, then your fish will be okay but your plants may die off. This is a tough call. I had my plants (vallisneria, crypts) rot off to the roots and come back after treatment was terminated.
Good luck,
HarleyK
Look up the ingredient list. If it contains copper in any form (likely) then it'll be hard on scale-less fish but okay with your plants.
If it contains malachite green and you dose it according to instructions, then your fish will be okay but your plants may die off. This is a tough call. I had my plants (vallisneria, crypts) rot off to the roots and come back after treatment was terminated.
Good luck,
HarleyK
Fungus clear is for fungus and some bacteria, it is not effective on ich.
Try Rid-ich+ rather than the original rid-ich, they are both formalin/malachite green based meds but rid-ich+ uses a zinc free chloride of malachite green that is safer for loaches and catfish. Do not use for mormyrids. It kills some inverts like shrimp. Used as directed it should not kill you plants or harm your biofilter.
Try Rid-ich+ rather than the original rid-ich, they are both formalin/malachite green based meds but rid-ich+ uses a zinc free chloride of malachite green that is safer for loaches and catfish. Do not use for mormyrids. It kills some inverts like shrimp. Used as directed it should not kill you plants or harm your biofilter.
I am pretty sure Rid ich killed my scaleless catfish. The safest bet is to just increase the temp and use aquarium salt. As for the Plants, can you just temporarily move them to a different tank? You should be able to wash them off well and put them back in after you have treated the tank and done a few water changes to get rid of the chemicals.
I agree that it is better to move the plants and use salt and heat (just watch their behavior if you have corys or pims) than it is to use meds.What I was pointing out is that fungus clear does not cure ich and that if you use meds RID ICH PLUS is much safer to use for scaless fish than the original RID ICH. As Casey Norris pointed out the original formulation is dangerous to most scaleless fish. Also anti-ich medications are not safe with inverts like shrimp so they should be moved with the plants. Since ich does not feed on inverts or plants, and goes through it' life cycle in 7 days at 78 degrees F. if the fish and plants/inverts are seperated during the 10 days of treatment and the water the plants are kept in is at least 78 degrees F. no ich should survive long enough to be transfered back into the tank. Many plants like sags and elodea survive the 2 teaspoons salt per gallon used for treatment without harm but some plants will die back from it.
Hiya this is my first post here and yeah, I am a bit of a newbie to fish-keeping
In the 2+ years I have been keeping a 55 gallon tank (A well planted/Amazon bio-type populated with Bolivian Rams, Otos, Tetras, Grass Shrimp and Peppered Cories. The Ph is 6.8/water is soft and is changed 30% monthly. And but for a recent slight elevation in the ammonia level all other readings are nominal) In short I am not sure if I have a problem but as a newbie I do have concern for two of my Cories who recently paired off and started to behaving quite different than the other Peppered Cories that I have.
What they have been doing is swimming at all levels darting quickly in every direction and always synchronized side-by-side/ meaning they are not chasing each other. The other thing that has change is one of these two Cories has drastically changed color, from a dull spotted grey to a really intense spotted metallic green. It is my hope that all of this change is just a mating thing but then again not knowing I fear that the elevation in the ammonia level that what this really could be is something else like stress? I dont know and none of the other fish are showing signs of stress but I am baffled.
the only other so called problem I can add is that the largest of my Rams likes to pair off and often hide in the same cave with my monster size/3+ Gold Skirt who really doesnt seem to care for his own kind save to perhaps eat. The two really get along well that I now call them the odd couple. The concern for the Gold Skirt is this a sufficient enough tank mate for him? Because everything that I have read about them is they like to school and mine would rather cannibalize his own kind and hang out with a large male Bolivian Ram.
In the 2+ years I have been keeping a 55 gallon tank (A well planted/Amazon bio-type populated with Bolivian Rams, Otos, Tetras, Grass Shrimp and Peppered Cories. The Ph is 6.8/water is soft and is changed 30% monthly. And but for a recent slight elevation in the ammonia level all other readings are nominal) In short I am not sure if I have a problem but as a newbie I do have concern for two of my Cories who recently paired off and started to behaving quite different than the other Peppered Cories that I have.
What they have been doing is swimming at all levels darting quickly in every direction and always synchronized side-by-side/ meaning they are not chasing each other. The other thing that has change is one of these two Cories has drastically changed color, from a dull spotted grey to a really intense spotted metallic green. It is my hope that all of this change is just a mating thing but then again not knowing I fear that the elevation in the ammonia level that what this really could be is something else like stress? I dont know and none of the other fish are showing signs of stress but I am baffled.
the only other so called problem I can add is that the largest of my Rams likes to pair off and often hide in the same cave with my monster size/3+ Gold Skirt who really doesnt seem to care for his own kind save to perhaps eat. The two really get along well that I now call them the odd couple. The concern for the Gold Skirt is this a sufficient enough tank mate for him? Because everything that I have read about them is they like to school and mine would rather cannibalize his own kind and hang out with a large male Bolivian Ram.