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its ich man I highly recomend raising heat idk about adding salt I never have myself but have had fish with it... that being said there is plenty of ich aids you can use but I have heard adding salt in my opinion I would rather put in natrual aids like salt versus harsh chemicals best of luck my friend is that a guyana ocell? they seem real tough I have two my self and they are very hearty again good luck mate
 
kdrun76;4054695; said:
Do you know the water parameters they came from and how they compared to yours?

The traveling alone was a lot of stress on them, if there was a significant water parameter difference that only adds to it.

Keep the lights out on the tank. Lights add to stress.

What are your nitrates? Can you get them under 10ppm and keep them there for at least 2 weeks? (LOTS of water changes!) Put that with the salt and heat and you should be able to save a previously healthy fish. If they were sick before they got in the car or came from high nitrate water: all bets are off.
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wouldn't constant water changes just stress out the fish even more ?
 
monstermonkee;4055632; said:
wouldn't constant water changes just stress out the fish even more ?
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Depends on what the water parameters are. Immune system function degrades rapidly with water quality. If the water isn't so good to begin with, then leaving the fish with a nonfunctional immune system is far worse than the water changes could ever be.

And quite honestly, it will be the water conditions of their old tank that will be most influential in determining the current function of their immune system. Building up white blood cells takes time, and if they were previously held in water with high nitrates, they won't have many white blood cells to help them fight off their current infection. If they are still in high nitrate water, their immune system will be further suppressed. Clean water stimulates the growth of their immune system. They need it. Period.

If they are currently in water that has nitrates as low as 5-10ppm, then the water changes will indeed be more stress, but if the nitrates are up over 40, 50% daily would be better for them than letting it go.
 
Personally at this size Cichla are extremly sensitive. Be VERY CAREFUL when using anything other then salt to treat small Cichla. You want to be sure the treatment is actually treating the diagnosis. Yes it's ich and heat and 1tsb of salt is sufficient enough to treat the problem. Keep them well feed and if you can lights out. I would go crazy over this but you have learned that high temos will keep you from having this problem in the future. Be sure to match the temprature of the WC to the tank water when you do get the scheduled WC. I have loss small cichla that aquired ich because of this as well. Good luck I hope they pull through for you.

What size tank are they in? And what is your filtration for this tank?
 
okay not sure of the water paramaters that they were in before, but it was from a pretty decent shop so i would of thoight them to be tiptop? not sure... raised the temp up a but and it looks slightly better already, there still feeding fine, so thats a gd sign? right?, the tank there in atm is a 30"x15"x15" not sure on the gallonage? as their only tiny, that picture is the biggest one of the four. i am running a rena xpstar2 on this tank. thanks
 
wow hope he makes it add salt and meds cause he is beautiful
 
it looks to me like you handled it with dry hands and the body slim is peeling off. Anyways, I would do all of the above, and definitely the melafix, be patient with it though, but it works wonders
 
add salt bump up temperature and add API Pimafix it soudns like a fungus and pimfix is GREAT for this
 
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