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After fighting fin rot multiple times and Ich in my community tank, I would like to get a UV filter for it. These episodes have come from fish I brought home and did not quarantine (I know, I know... lesson learned), but even though I won't be making that mistake again, I'd like to invest in a...

what about some small shrimp? otos should also be safe and will take care of algae.

I have a planted tank set up with a few ottos and platys and snails. My ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are always 0 across the board, and have been for months. I do a monthly water change out of habit, but I'm wondering if there's any point. Is it helping the fish? Is there any point in changing...

Nope, just plants, rocks and driftwood. Have a sponge over the HOB filter intake as well.

We have a dog, I guess either of those is possible. Could the platys have finished him off in a day?

I have a 10g tank with 2 otos, 2 platys and 1 ghost shrimp. Tonight I found that one of the ottos is missing. I know they can be hard to find but I just spent 20 minutes poking anything and everything to be sure he wasn't just misplaced. Any thoughts on what could have happened to him? No signs...

Thank you both. Not air bubbles. I put it to 90 because I heard that some strains of ICH are more resistant than others and I wanted to be safe since I couldn't add any salt to the tank. Thanks, I did read that article. The problem with heating to 86 degrees exactly is that if your...

Be careful, chemicals may kill your plants.

How are you treating it?

I am on day 3 of having my temp at 90 degrees. One of my ottos is still getting a few more spots. Is that cause for concern or will they still continue to appear if they are at that point in the lifecycle?

DA Fisherman, not sure where you are getting your info but many people here and elsewhere have defeated ICH with temperature alone. Also remember there is FW ICH and marine ICH. OP is talking about FW ICH.

When I replace my filter, I empty the charcoal out of the old one and stick the old filtermedia in the HOB filter. Helps to speed up or even avoid the minicycle completely.

I can't speak from prior experience, but I've been reading about this non-stop for the last three days because I have the same problem, so here is what I have found. Heating a tank to 86 degrees F will kill most instances of ICH. There are two failure cases you have to watch out for: 1) Some...

I am treating my tank for ICH (heated to 90 degrees F), and I notice this on the side of my tank: Are these bits of ICH attached to the side or are they something else? I have a platy quarantined in a separate tank being treated with salt, and I don't see anything on the side of that tank.

Awesome, thanks. This will hugely simplify my quarantine tank. I was worried I'd be sanitizing gravel... blech. Thanks again.

Thanks, I'd really like to quarantine my plants if possible but if there is no solution I guess I could do that.

Hi, I am setting up a Marineland Hex 5 as a quarantine tank for new fish and plants. I want to quarantine new plants when I buy them because I usually buy them from tanks that are stocked with fish, and I believe a plant may have been responsible for my recent ICH outbreak. I know that a QT is...

Okay good to know and will do. Thanks a bunch.

Here is the fish, for reference. It's hard to tell from the picture but there are white spots: edit: if a mod wants to move this to the sick fish forum, that is fine by me. I posted here because it started as a general question but now it is pretty specifically about sick fish/plants.

Uh oh, now I see some weird white stuff on my plants, too. Is this ICH or am I dealing with something else? Here is the plant, see middle of photo:

Question about ICH. Edit: Could be something else, new details, please see post 7. I am in the middle of treating my tank for ICH. It came about three weeks after I introduced marbled hatchets from my LFS (all died :(), and one week after introducing two ghost shrimp from PetSmart. I would...

Thanks. So you just slice it and microwave it? Every couple days?

Thanks, I'll try that.

I have two ottos in my 10-gallon community tank. There is little if any visible algae. I put in sinking algae wafers when I feed the other fish, but they don't go over and eat them like the other fish do with their food. The wafers are always gone later in the day when I get home, but I have no...

When you buy the CFL, be sure to get a "daylight" one that burns at 6500k. The regular household ones are warm and burn at under 3k.