Ok so I'm going to treating my tank for ich. I have a penguin 350 hob filter. It says to take out my carbon while treating but I don't want to lose the BB on my filter media! How can I keep it alive while it's not in the filter? Can I just keep it in the water for the few days that I'm treating? Will it be fine or should I run an air stone in a bucket with it? Any advise would be appreciated
Treating ich
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What are you treating with?
Freshwater Ich? Yuck!
You might find the linked article above useful. You can effectively treat ich without using any meds at all if you have an aquarium heater...
Freshwater Ich? Yuck!
You might find the linked article above useful. You can effectively treat ich without using any meds at all if you have an aquarium heater...
fort384 said:
I can't remember the name of it. It safe for scaleless fish. Can you treat with heat alone? I thought you had to use salt. I have shrimp and a few scaleless fish. And what I've read they don't like salt. And I have cories and I've read they are very sensitive to salt
Mumma.of.two
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Raise the temperature to 86-88F slowly over a day or so
Increase aeration
Do extra water changes and gravel vacs
Leave the temp up for 1 week after last spot is seen
No meds or salt needed
Increase aeration
Do extra water changes and gravel vacs
Leave the temp up for 1 week after last spot is seen
No meds or salt needed
Mumma.of.two
Aquarium Advice Obsessed
Paxdaddy said:
Keep us posted!
Ok so I decided to use medication. Heat alone hasn't seemed to be Eli g anything I have been using the kordon brand ich treatment everyday for four days now and my temp is at 87-88 degrees. The fish that I can see the ich on still looks the same. I havent seen and improvement. Some other fish are scratching on things but I only see the spots on the one fish. Why does it not look like its doing anything?
Joe5688
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Mumma.of.two said:
How many times u think you post that a week lol
ejaramillo01
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You said that you used medications, can you describe the treatment? How many days? How often did you add the medication? Etc.Paxdaddy said:
But also you increased the temperature, again how many days the tank has been at 87 88 degrees?
temp has been up for about 8 days now and i have treated with kordon rid-ich plus for the last 6 days exactly as it says on the bottle 1 tsp for every 10 gal. every 24 hours and i have done a 25-30% water change before each treatment.
ejaramillo01
Aquarium Advice Addict
Paxdaddy said:
Keep it up for another week, sounds to me that you are in the right path
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