Hi everyone I'm new here and have discovered that my 2 goldfish have ick. Only a few whites spots near to their gills. They have a few scales missing as well (I think from rubbing themselves against the drift wood and rock).
I've looked it up on here and the best way people are going about this seems to be to crank up the temperature slowly to about 85F. Is this right? I have 2 rosy barbs in the tank as well and I've read they like a temp of around 73F so if I was to crank up the temp would this kill them? Would I be better to chemically treat the tank instead? How slowly should I raise the temp and keep it at what exact temp and for how long (if this is the way to go)?
Forgive my ignorance on this but I am new to keeping fish. My tank is at 7.5PH, ammonia seems to stay around 0.25ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, but I've found my Nitrate is really high at about 80ppm. I was going to buy a Nitra-Zorb media to place inside my external filter to sort this out tomorrow and buy a heater and/or some ick solution.
My tank was cycled around 6 months ago. I used to have an internal filter but at Christmas got the big external filter. I washed the media with the water from the tank and squeezed all the old internal filters sponge into this water to help the new filter mature quickly and have been cycling this new filter since Christmas, but everything seemed fine with the tests Ph, Ammonia etc. I got some driftwood and plants around the 28th of December to place in my tank due to a snail eating them all. The snail went back to the shop. Could the ick have come from the plants or driftwood?
A bit of a long post but I thought the more info people had the better response I might get on the problem at hand.
My main tank and details are in the footing of this posting. (minus the snail)
Thanks Neil
I've looked it up on here and the best way people are going about this seems to be to crank up the temperature slowly to about 85F. Is this right? I have 2 rosy barbs in the tank as well and I've read they like a temp of around 73F so if I was to crank up the temp would this kill them? Would I be better to chemically treat the tank instead? How slowly should I raise the temp and keep it at what exact temp and for how long (if this is the way to go)?
Forgive my ignorance on this but I am new to keeping fish. My tank is at 7.5PH, ammonia seems to stay around 0.25ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, but I've found my Nitrate is really high at about 80ppm. I was going to buy a Nitra-Zorb media to place inside my external filter to sort this out tomorrow and buy a heater and/or some ick solution.
My tank was cycled around 6 months ago. I used to have an internal filter but at Christmas got the big external filter. I washed the media with the water from the tank and squeezed all the old internal filters sponge into this water to help the new filter mature quickly and have been cycling this new filter since Christmas, but everything seemed fine with the tests Ph, Ammonia etc. I got some driftwood and plants around the 28th of December to place in my tank due to a snail eating them all. The snail went back to the shop. Could the ick have come from the plants or driftwood?
A bit of a long post but I thought the more info people had the better response I might get on the problem at hand.
My main tank and details are in the footing of this posting. (minus the snail)
Thanks Neil