Josiehadley
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Oct 24, 2012
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That won't work it needs to be treated with either copper or hypo those are the only two proven cures for ich, neither can be done in your main tankIch is in your tank already. Nothing you can do but keep the other fish from being stressed. I just lost my flame angel as well to ich, and all other fish are fine. Just try to keep him well fed to help keep his strength up to fight it.
A fish will more then likely not suvive ich if not treated and most of the time they don't eat or eat very little. Everyone should have some sort of qt tank or your just asking for more troubles to come.
If he has ich I doubt that he'll be fine. The ich if left untreated will get down it the sand and multiply and infect your hole tank the fish will become covered and eventually succumb to the parasite.
I actually used this, it helped a great deal.. I had no fish deaths when using it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000256EJE
Yes thats true when they've fallen off is when their at risk but I'm not sure what your point is. You have to have some form of meds to kill them when they've fallen off. And if your going to use anything I would use cupramine by seachem and also do not use any thing in your main tank if you have inverts. you will also have to leave your tank fishless for 6 to 8 weeks to assure that the ich in your main tank are dead.Yea.but I heard that once it falls that's when is best to be treated cuz when they on the fish ... The skin of the fish or slime of them prevents it to b treated that's y is best to way when it's on the sand
Yes thats true when they've fallen off is when their at risk but I'm not sure what your point is. You have to have some form of meds to kill them when they've fallen off. And if your going to use anything I would use cupramine by seachem and also do not use any thing in your main tank if you have inverts. you will also have to leave your tank fishless for 6 to 8 weeks to assure that the ich in your main tank are dead.
Just a heads up, you can't use both meds at the same time it could kill the fish. You would have to remove one completely before using another. I've used cupramine many times and it works great its a less toxic form of copper then other meds so it has less of an adverse effect on the fish.