ICH???

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Cliff.W.

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Hey guys can you tell me if this is right??? Do your suction cup turn into this being covered in white spots? or is this what they call the 2nd phase of ICH when it falls off fish to reporduce eggs for more ICH?

Please let me know cause my previous feeder gold fishes had ICH and I discovered that very early and netted all the gold fishes out and turned up the heat in the tank to 29.5C now. and added salt to my 180g. This was more than 2 weeks ago. I now have 11 tetra's in the 180g tank right now and they have no ICH are very healthy as well swimming and eating.

I just want to know if this stuff on my suction cup is something bad coming up in the future or somethign that i should look into.

Thanks!

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sorry, would not be able to tell. probably not. could be other build up.
pull it out and stick some scrapings off and microscope them. though is a concern seeing as you had ich in the tank recently.
from fresh to a bit of salt usually will kill it in the right stage. they could hatch and die or not take to the fish if the fish are in great health and stress free and something is not suiting the white spot disease. keep water clean and watch for an outbreak. temperature is sometimes raised to shorten, rather quicken, the life cycle but do this with caution. especially if temp is raised on water with ammonia load present it could make things worse.
 
keep the temperature at 86F or above (I think that's 30°C and above) will kill all the ich even without using salt, do that for 10 days but I usually do 2 weeks if there's ever ich in my tank.
 
the white spots on the suction cup are from high pH and hardness. happens in all of my tanks.

As for ich, like the others said, high heat and salt will knock it out. Be sure to use extra aeration as the higher the water temp the less oxygen it can hold.
 
So I brought the clown loaches back from the lfs and they seem to be swimming now. Ph right now in tank is 7.8. Last time after 2 days the loaches stopped swimming and was inactive then one loach died but ph last time of tank was 8+. I hope none of the loaches die this time. Any tips? What do u guys think my chances are right now for the loaches? All the tetras are doing wonderful 11 of 11 still. All counted for. I'm just worried about the clown loaches. =(
 
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