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I've just noticed one of my guppies has ick. While I know how to treat various fish ailments, I'm not sure what to do with my dwarf frogs who are residing in the same tank (there are 3). I have been searching the web and cannot find much on this subject. I have read at one site that they cannot contract ick but I cannot find anything on whether or not they should be moved to another tank during treatment. If I do move them, I guess that leads to another question... if I move them, can they carry the disease to another tank. Any thoughts ??

Difficult situation, Mom. The frogs are the unknown and therefore the problem. I don't think that ich will effect the amphibians but I don't know what impact that meds would have on them. I think that you shouldn't treat the frogs with the ich meds as the meds have a negative impact on scaleless fish such as loaches

My recommendation would normally be to raise the tank temperature to 84F, perform a large water change then treat the tank at half dose. The same treatment should be followed every other day for two weeks. Note that a "large" water change is 50%.

The two problems with the treatment are the meds, as I said before, and possibly the temperature. I dont know that the dwarf frogs would be able to tolerate the high temp.

Ich is a parasite that does infect the subsrate and will attach itself to plants and other animals in the aquarium. The parasite goes through a number of phases in its life cycle. In one phase, it is attached to the fish and shows as white bumps. It is susceptible to the medication in only one phase as it seeks a host. The rise in temperature speeds up the life cycle and prevents the organisms from attacking the host while exposing it to the med. The two week cycle for meds is designed to catch the parasite after one or two or three cycles to eliminate it.



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Hi Megs,
ADF's will tolerate the high temperatures
required to fight ICH.
However, they will NOT tolerate salt in the water,
nor copper salts, so the med Aquari-Sol is out of
the question.
Quick Cure can be used, with caution.
I have used Kents RX-P with frogs with no ill effects.
Its the best ich medicine in my opinion,
and I have used it several times on highly sensitive fish,
with frogs and shrimp in the tank, with no ill affects.


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Nope, no salt in that tank because of the catfish.

So far the froggies seem totally unaffected by anything (meds or temp) - still trying to hop in my hand when I feed the worms and there is still only one fish that has any spots. She is swimming perfectly normally like nothing is wrong!! Thanks for your suggestions. Much appreciated.