Ich????!?!?!?

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Gvendur said:
What worked for me doesn't necessary work for others. And how much more stress can it have compared to buying a new fish in fish store netting it, keeping it in small bag while driving home, and then put it in the aquarium still in the bag, and then introduce the fish to the new tank?

Getting rid of white spots by netting a sick fish and rub VERY gently not scraping. This only takes few minutes compared to other things fishes can go through. And fishes actually scrape their bellies on rocks and what not when taking a dump for example... so in theory you can just scrape the ich with rocks xD

And talking about it spreading like wildfire in the tank by doing this.... if you want to do this safer you can do this in a bucket and then just throw the water out in the drain and put the fish back in the tank with fresh new water and salt and keep changing water.

Btw have you seen how they cut the teeth on puffer fishes?!?

- Just my 2 cents.
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Yea but buying a fish and acclimating it is a one time thing.

And even if u manage to succesfully rub it off you still havent solved the reason why it got ick to begin with! If it worked for you then cool, i had ick once on one of my first tanks ever and never since then cuz i keep my water perfect and vac almost everyday to eliminate stress.

Imo ick can be prevented unless purchased with ick.

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I said post more pics like 12 posts ago, we can't really help you if we don't know what is happening. Don't take any of this advice until you actually know it is ich, you could be making things worse. POST PICS


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golcondorus said:
I said post more pics like 12 posts ago, we can't really help you if we don't know what is happening. Don't take any of this advice until you actually know it is ich, you could be making things worse. POST PICS


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He won't stay still but it was ich due to all the white stuff coming off as soon as I raised the temp to 86 slowly of course,salt and quick cure he has a little bit on his tail bit it did say it will clear the 3rd day wich is tomorro and he's bieng more active and eating alot :) !!!!thank all you guys for helping and bieng here wen a MFK member needs u


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Giant, you are doing the right thing. Glad you are ignoring some of the bad advice.

1. Attempting to scrape Ich off of a fish will surely do more harm than good. Ich will often attack the fish's gills. Would you recommend also scraping a fishes gills?

2. Ich is not always present. Fish that are highly stressed are likely more susceptible to being infected but it is a parasite that must be introduced to an aquarium.

In case anyone is interested, check out this link for a good read. Knowledge is power and it's clear some folks on here trying to provide advice need to hit the weights....errr books =) http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/ichthyophthirius
 
aldiaz33 said:
Giant, you are doing the right thing. Glad you are ignoring some of the bad advice.

1. Attempting to scrape Ich off of a fish will surely do more harm than good. Ich will often attack the fish's gills. Would you recommend also scraping a fishes gills?

2. Ich is not always present. Fish that are highly stressed are likely more susceptible to being infected but it is a parasite that must be introduced to an aquarium.

In case anyone is interested, check out this link for a good read. Knowledge is power and it's clear some folks on here trying to provide advice need to hit the weights....errr books =) http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/ichthyophthirius
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Hey bro thanks and thank you for sharing that site


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