Gold123456th
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jan 31, 2012
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Hi All
Four days ago on Monday one of my neon tetra started to develop ich.
Decided not to use the medication path, I slowly turned up the temperature of the tank to 30C hoping that the parasites would not reproduce and create new cysts on the tetras.
However, two days ago on Tuesday more tetras developed the cysts. In respond to that I slowly turned the temperature up again to 32C hoping that the ich parasites still swimming around would be killed.
At 32C the 7 tetras seemed to be energetic and did not show signs of stress because they still do schooling and alot of swimming.
However, today is Thursday and more cysts are seen and more tetras developed the cysts.
I just added two teaspoon of non-iodized NaCl into my 10gallon tank.
Would the situation become better? Right now it seems to me that the heat method isn't very effective because new cysts keep developed during the four day treatment. The heat just doesn't seem to stop the parasites from invading the tetras because new cysts keep appearing.
Thanks!
Four days ago on Monday one of my neon tetra started to develop ich.
Decided not to use the medication path, I slowly turned up the temperature of the tank to 30C hoping that the parasites would not reproduce and create new cysts on the tetras.
However, two days ago on Tuesday more tetras developed the cysts. In respond to that I slowly turned the temperature up again to 32C hoping that the ich parasites still swimming around would be killed.
At 32C the 7 tetras seemed to be energetic and did not show signs of stress because they still do schooling and alot of swimming.
However, today is Thursday and more cysts are seen and more tetras developed the cysts.
I just added two teaspoon of non-iodized NaCl into my 10gallon tank.
Would the situation become better? Right now it seems to me that the heat method isn't very effective because new cysts keep developed during the four day treatment. The heat just doesn't seem to stop the parasites from invading the tetras because new cysts keep appearing.
Thanks!