Help!!!!!

[Joey17]

My dragon goby has Ich, what should i do? Should i seperate him from the other fish ? What medication should i use.

 

[rich311k]

Raise your temperature slowy above 86f. Go a degree every 6 hours or so. Leave it at 87+ for two weeks after all signs of ich are gone. No sense removing him. If he has it the whole tank has it.

Here is an article about freshwater ich: http://aquariumadvice.com/article_view.php?faq=2&fldAuto=32

 

[Joey17]

Oh alright, so i don't need any medication at all?

 

[Zagz]

I agree the whole tank is affected but I thought that gobies were cold water fish? Perhaps I am mistaken.

 

[rich311k]

They tropical they are also brackish. Is your tank brackish or fresh?

 

[Joey17]

It's brackish.

 

[rich311k]

I am not sure about ich in BW. I did a liitle googling and it seems that adding a little more salt may help. Hopefully someone around here as experience with this. I am not sure if you should treat for FW or SW ich. I am sorry I cant be of more help.

 

[Joey17]

It's alright, i guess i should just stick with the temperature raising at the moment.

 

[Devilishturtles]

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/marineich.html

Here is a link to treating Marine Ich.

Rich and myself discussed your thread in chat tonight. If you don't see any improvement with the heat treatment, or things seem to be progressing, try treating for SW ich, using a hyposailinity treatment.

With your goby being scaleless, I would not try meds.

 

[Zagz]

This is so very interesting to me.LOL I love learning things about species I know nothing about. Oh and I have to start getting back into chat LOL.

 

[Devilishturtles]

This is so very interesting to me.LOL I love learning things about species I know nothing about. Oh and I have to start getting back into chat LOL.

Yes, you do!

 

[GreenGiant]

I'm not sure this will help (i.e. I'm not sure how much salt is in your brackish tank), but I had luck clearing ick at 3-4 g/L NaCl in my freshwater tank. Supposedly, this concentration of salt causes too much osmotic stress for the parasites - which kills them.

 

[Joey17]

Right now my Specific gravity is at about 1.004.