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Ok,

I am currently fighting a bout of Ich in my tank . Reading so many entries here at FP regarding
Ich I began to wonder how common this problem actually is. So here are my questions:

1) How often do you have Ich in your tank?
2) Why do you think you got it?
3) How do you treat it?

This would also include an outbreak in a quarantine tank.

My answers:

1) I have Ich for the second time in 4 months.
2) I got it most likely from introducing new fish (looked healthy to me in the LFS), in my case
both times after adding 6 Neon Tetras to the tank.
3) I treat it with Quick Cure on a quarter dosage (1/2 for Tetras and 1/2 for plants) every other
day, with 20% water changes on the days between treatment, for 2 weeks (even if I don’t see any
signs of Ich anymore before that time is up).

What is your experience?

Thanks,

Ingo

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Well...I haven't had a case of ich since last year

Once I discovered that I had 4 thermometers with 4 different temperatures it wasn't difficult to rule out the cause.

When a tank does have ich I treat with raised temps, Quick Cure or Rid Ich +, and salt (if safe for the tank occupants).

I have 2 very, very nervous male keyholes. Anything gets these two darting around the tank, off-color, looking for a hiding place...even water changes or a different face looking at the tank And the white spots appear Whether it's truly ich or not doesn't matter, it definitely looks like ich but I've learned to ignore it and a few hours later they're back to normal

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Haven't had it for about a year ,but that was my only case ,and it started off after a stressful tank move.
Cured with raised water temps and a whitespot treatment.Now run a uv sterilizer all the time,and as backup i can run a vortex diatom filter which is supposedly capable of macerating the protozoa.(even if it doesn't the tank looks great after a run in with that filter.)

Last edited by krige at 26-Jun-2005 07:21

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i think the most common times u would get ich, would be season changes (out side temp change, sometimes drasticly), when new fish r added, and when the tank is messed with, like 50%+ water changes, and new tanks...

1) How often do you have Ich in your tank?

I had ich once in my 10 gallon tank, in 2001.

2) Why do you think you got it?

It came in on a new neon.

3) How do you treat it?

I used Rid-Ich. I've also helped countless others (in dorms) treat their fish for ich with Rid-Ich. It's cheap, readily available, and works just fine IME.

I had it once, and it came in on some platies that I *thankfully* had in quarrantine.

I treated it, but without the heat, (i had no spare heater) it got 2 of them.

4 pulled through.

I used Protozin.

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oh man I have ICH almost every time after a water change due to I move plants arround for better veiw probably stress the fish. my neon/cardinal tetra specially. But only my cardinal gets the white spot tho. But after I treat them with quickqure they be fine. How ever I also have another 35g with severum that I never have white spot for like 3-4 years now. But last week when I added a rock white spot out break baby. I guess it must be the rock that carry the white spot.

i just had once...because of a new platy...after that..its been awhile....i thought once...i got a new ich..coz i indtro new fish...but i observed for like 5 days...and it just went away..so..not all "ich" looking spot r created equal..sort off!!!

I've only had it once, but it's right now.

It must have come in with my new rummynose tetras, which were quarentined for 2 weeks, and looked fine.

I'm treating it with Rid-Ick. Everybody says to raise the temp, but it never seems to be mentioned to what temp it should be raised. My tank was at 78f, I raised to 80f, I didn't want to go any higher without knowing for sure. I hope that is a good temp.

Was that all the questions?....I hope so..

-Dennis

Touch wood I cannot remember the last time I had any in my tank.

Where does it come from either from fish, plants, and I know the water during the colder months.

Stopping it, be extremly careful when buying anything. Only buy from trusted sources.
Prepared all water one week in advance.

Keith

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well i've never actualy had an ich outbrake and if i did i would most likely use melafix or multi cure

Hmmm .... oh! Two years ago, when the heater in my 44 died. Only the stappersi got it, which was actually unfortunate since their natural patterning seems contrived to hide the "evidence." I bought a new (better) heater, kept the temperature up a bit, and everyone was fine.

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I have had Ich twice in my whole 3 years almost of fish keeping, right at the beginning in the first 6 months.
I used Kent Marine RX-P, because of all my scaleless fish
and tetras.
It works great, is safe and easy.
Ich is not a worry for me.

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Got my first case ever last week with my Oscars.

Messing up temps into tank messed them up

Fishyhelper288 I do 50 % water changes every week and only had one outbreak of Ick.
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Last edited by angeleel at 04-Jul-2005 19:34

Yay it like 2years i have aquariums and till a few months ago i never really treated my fish well(noob mistake) and i never had ich. tuff fish.

10gallon: 8neons 5gallon: 1betta
1oto
2platys

I have it right now. I've been behind on my water changes