Ich

[FuriousFish]

So I posted my thread yesterdyy about my ID shark but it seems to be full blown ich at this point.

the midevil and ID shark appear to be the ones infected...
the midevil I got a few days ago so I believe he is the cause.

they both kind of hover near the top and the ID shark has visible white spots. midevil DOES NOT have viiible white spots...

please do not ask me about the parameters setup etc., iI answeres all that in the other thread.

I have been dosing with "quICK Cure" (the blue stuff) But I am not sure how well it is doing.

Iordered a large bottle of "paraguard" upon suggestion in other thread... looking for a few more opinions cause I really do not want to lose my fish.

 

[FuriousFish]

ID shark also appears to have something going on with gills being open and his chin.

midevil looks like he has film on his head.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Treat with Kordon Rid Ich Plus.

 

[ECW]

Treat with Kordon Rid Ich Plus.

+1
That's what I used recently because it was available when I needed it and had the ingredients I like to use to combat ich. Worked very well. I used to love the old quick cure by aquarium products but they discontinued it... Looks like Mardel took over and made the identical product? I would use that if your treating a large tank. Way more cost effective. I see Hikari makes a decent product too that I wouldn't hesitate to use called ich-x. Or you could go the traditional route with heat and salt. Careful with scaleless.
Edit... I see your already dosing with Mardel quICK cure. It has the right ingredients which was similar to the old quick cure by AP. I always used it at half dose if I had scaleless fish such as clowns and other fragile fish or not and it worked 100% every time with no losses. I always only used half dose (1 drop per gallon no matter what!) no matter the fish or what the instructions said.

 

[ECW]

I had to look it up in one of my old posts because I wasn't 100% sure since the last time I dealt with ich using quick cure was nearly 5 years ago. Plus I didn't want to have to type it all out again by memory. Here it is:

For treatment of ick I have had great success with Quick Cure with even scaleless fish such as clown loaches with NO losses. I treat at half doses (1 drop per 2 gallons @ tank listed water volume... not actual) for three days/treatments and then do a water change, clean mechnical filtration, and start all over again. Ex: Day 1: 50% gravel vac water change, clean mechanical filtration, then half dose of Quck Cure. Day 2: half dose of Quick Cure. Day 3: another half dose of Quick Cure. Day 4: 50% gravel vac waterchange, clean mechanical, then half dose of Quick Cure again like Day 1. Day 5: half dose Quick Cure. Day 6: half dose Quick Cure. Day 7: same as Day 1 and 4. Day 8: half dose Quick Cure. Day 9: another half dose of Quick Cure. Day 10: same as day 1,4, and 7. (get it?) and so on and so on till you see no signs of ick. Then keep doing the treatment cycle for another 10 -14 days. I have killed some pretty resilient ick with this method.

I noticed in my post I didn't speak of trying to be on time and treat around the same time everyday. I think that's important. Develop a routine. Hope this helps. I'm sure your fish will be fine. It's irritating but it's only ich...

 

[CarpCharacin]

formalin malachite green works the best.

 

[duanes]

It sometimes takes 2 or more weeks to get rid of ich.
You will not see any significant reduction in a day or even 3, and then because their are dormant cysts laying all around the tank, and on the fish, you must keep treating.
The medication does not remove spots, they must hatch out on their own, and the new ich "hatchlings" are then killed by the medication.
You can help speed up the process by vacuuming the substrate, it removes dormant cysts. But as you remove water you must retreat new additional water.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

It sometimes takes 2 or more weeks to get rid of ich.
You will not see any significant reduction in a day or even 3, and then because their are dormant cysts laying all around the tank, and on the fish, you must keep treating.
The medication does not remove spots, they must hatch out on their own, and the new ich "hatchlings" are then killed by the medication.
You can help speed up the process by vacuuming the substrate, it removes dormant cysts. But as you remove water you must retreat new additional water.

Recently when I lost many loaches where I bought them and they had ick I lost them all 24 hours later and my three bigger loaches got it. Treated them all with heat and salt and all made it minus one big loach.

It was dumb for me to add loaches without putting them in my hospital tank. I couldn't see the ich since they were swimming so fast and j got a dozen lol