Ick outbreak!!!

[jglk90]

I have a 55 gallon setup with tropical fish like barbs, tetras, rainbow shark, clown loach, ect... I just noticed that some of the fish have those little white dots. What is the easiest way to treat this disease without harming the fish???

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[ecoli73]

Salt and high temperature if it is ich(make sure it is not velvet); or any number of medicines...half dose since you have clown loaches. I personally use copper safe; but that will kill snails/harm some plants if you have them.

 

[DIDYSIS]

Temp to 85 add salt per the box 1tablespoon per 5 gallons. Does it everytime.

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[bdevilcasey]

I'd actually take temp up to 86 to be sure. Fish will be fine at that temp.

 

[MonsterMinis]

just bump the temp to 85.. within 24 hours youll know if its velevet or ick... velevet will get much worse. and do massive water changes.. no need for salt. if it is velevet drop the temp back down and treat with melafix at 1/2 dose... the key is doing 50% water changes daily for the next 3-5 days. dont mess with your filters or anything.

 

[probassfisher010]

Just got done with velvet in my tank, that stuff is brutal, lost 4 fish and one still doesn't look good, you better hope you don't have that stuff.


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[jglk90]

How will I know if its ick or velvet?

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[ecoli73]

ich spots are bigger, salt grain look, velvet is smaller...take a picture and post it

clown with velet from web:


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beta with ich from web

 

[rokit_armor]

+1 for salt/temps.
Used to use all sorts of meds, QuIck cure, etc but none of them worked. I turned temps to 85 and used a lower salt dose (1 tsp per 5 gals) and it was gone in a week. None of my fish were lost or stressed looking. Be sure to increase aeration if you are using this method.
Now I just prevent the ich outbreaks, I have learned my lessons.

 

[F1 VET]

Just got done with velvet in my tank, that stuff is brutal, lost 4 fish and one still doesn't look good, you better hope you don't have that stuff.


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+1 for salt/temps.
Used to use all sorts of meds, QuIck cure, etc but none of them worked. I turned temps to 85 and used a lower salt dose (1 tsp per 5 gals) and it was gone in a week. None of my fish were lost or stressed looking. Be sure to increase aeration if you are using this method.
Now I just prevent the ich outbreaks, I have learned my lessons.

Thats no good, sorry for you loss.



And yes prevention is the key with these situations. Almost always can be avoided by having clean water and quarantined fish!

#1 S. Vettel