Bioworldmaker
Aquarium Advice Freak
So, a while ago my fish got ich.
A few days before I realized the tank had ich (before the white dots appeared on my fish) I remember doing a partial water change using this piece of tubbing, which I set aside behind the couch to either boil later or throw away. I did a heat therapy and the ich went away, we lived happily ever after.
Except for the fact that, when I had to move the tank (because we were getting new carpet) a few weeks ago, I was draining the tank when my dear hubby being the sweetie he is came to help me. So here he comes, with that same piece of tubbing (from the ich episode) and started siphon the water out while I was taking the river rocks, driftwood, etc out of the tank. I didn't really noticed which tubbing he was using until it was "too late" and more than 3/4 of the water was gone through the tubbing.
Then I had a dilema: dump all of the water out and start over with a full tank of new water OR re-use some of the water (50%) and the rest with new water. Doing a 100% water change sounded too radical so I did the other option, using 50% of that water that went through that tubbing. I figured that maybe the parasite that causes itch would have died out, since the ich episode was so long ago... BUZZZZZZZ! WRONG!
Just 3 days ago I started noticing that the fish started to rub against the driftwood... Bad sign! Then, 2 days ago the first white bump appeared in one of my tiger barbs and I immediatelly started the heat treatment.
However, this time two of the otos didn't make it... Last time I saw them was last night, but today I found them already decomposing in the tank (why so fast!?) Poor little buggers are just too sensitive... I am sure there was enough O2 in the water (I have a bunch of air stones in there going now), the water parameters were good, so the only explanation I can think of is the temperature change, which was very gradual, like one degree every 1.5 to 2 hours or so...
Or maybe they already had ich in their gills? I dunno...
Now I have 2 left in the tank... I didn't want to buy any more otos because they die so easily, but I wonder if the two left will be OK just the two of them?
A few days before I realized the tank had ich (before the white dots appeared on my fish) I remember doing a partial water change using this piece of tubbing, which I set aside behind the couch to either boil later or throw away. I did a heat therapy and the ich went away, we lived happily ever after.
Except for the fact that, when I had to move the tank (because we were getting new carpet) a few weeks ago, I was draining the tank when my dear hubby being the sweetie he is came to help me. So here he comes, with that same piece of tubbing (from the ich episode) and started siphon the water out while I was taking the river rocks, driftwood, etc out of the tank. I didn't really noticed which tubbing he was using until it was "too late" and more than 3/4 of the water was gone through the tubbing.
Then I had a dilema: dump all of the water out and start over with a full tank of new water OR re-use some of the water (50%) and the rest with new water. Doing a 100% water change sounded too radical so I did the other option, using 50% of that water that went through that tubbing. I figured that maybe the parasite that causes itch would have died out, since the ich episode was so long ago... BUZZZZZZZ! WRONG!
Just 3 days ago I started noticing that the fish started to rub against the driftwood... Bad sign! Then, 2 days ago the first white bump appeared in one of my tiger barbs and I immediatelly started the heat treatment.
However, this time two of the otos didn't make it... Last time I saw them was last night, but today I found them already decomposing in the tank (why so fast!?) Poor little buggers are just too sensitive... I am sure there was enough O2 in the water (I have a bunch of air stones in there going now), the water parameters were good, so the only explanation I can think of is the temperature change, which was very gradual, like one degree every 1.5 to 2 hours or so...
Or maybe they already had ich in their gills? I dunno...Now I have 2 left in the tank... I didn't want to buy any more otos because they die so easily, but I wonder if the two left will be OK just the two of them?
