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I should add, to prevent future problems, that the temperature change outdoors can be too great for some fish...especially tropical fish if it gets as cold as 70F, then as high as 80F, especially in the same day. Constant temperatures and water parameters are needed to keep the ich at bay, so to speak. One of my tanks goes from 80.3F to 80.5F during the day.... that is the maximum temperature fluctuation that tank has....that is what you want. If a room can be anywhere between 70F at night and 79F during the day, then the heater needs to be set at 79F, even if the fish prefer 74F according to various internet websites.

Anyway, good luck on the fish, hope that helps.

i asked my mom and she said that she could get it for like 3.oo and will get it when i get the money, the other tiger is doing much better now, he still looks terrible but is now swimming again, and more good news, all but 3 of my other fish have recovered, they are in a 10 gallon getting final treatment, they will stay there, no more tropics in the pond, i learned my lesson the hard way.

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Just kidding, I have no clue what it would cost in your area. It cost about $5.50 USD for a fluid ounce of it in North Carolina, USA.

ok as for the freezing i never wanted to do it in the first place i will ask my mom to get the clove oil how much is it?

Whoops, I misread your question. Thought you were asking about the clove oil and such, lol. Rid-ich plus is preferable, I don't know about the medicine sneaky pete suggests, but there is more than one way to get something done, so I don't see why it wouldn't work. Quick Cure is a little harsh but could be used as well. Don't know about the wardley stuff, but my opinion on them isn't that great. All I can say is that they make decent shrimp pellets.

[span class="edited"][Edited by jake 2004-07-19 23:14][/span]

Go to Your local fish store, a GOOD one. Ask them for a Medicine called RX-P. It is made my Kent company. It is for marine fish but is safe for all freshwater fish as well, including loaches and the such.
Use this medicine directly as it says on the label. It cured a tough tough case in my tank, it should work for you. I have found that common ick meds like wardleys and such dont work. RX-P is a wonder med. I reccomend it highly.
Also raise your temp in your tank to 82-84 over the period of a day slowly, add 1 tablespoon aquarium salt to the water. Add the Rx-P. I Believe it calls for a full 14 days of treatment. Follow it, even if the fish look good keep dosing until the 14 days are up.
And PLEASE dont freeze your fish to euthanize them!!! Use CLOVE OIL. You get it at a pharmacy, any pharmacy.

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well i put spot to sleep, he could no longer swimm, and was suffering WAY too much, now i have a headake i feel so low, but hen i feel good for showing him how much i love him, tough love.

well i have learnrd my lesson on WHY not to do something, i will stick to the gold fish in the pond from now on, after i treat the 10 gallon and the ick is all gone, then what?

Healthfood/vitamin/natural store for the clove oil. I'm pretty sure you know where to get some vodka.

ah, 1 more problem i dont have those things, is there a substitute? and i am using something like what u said from wardly , they just seem to not want to live,

ALL my fish (except my bettas) have ick my oscar my tiger barbs have it the worst my guppies my plattys my sword tails i am treating them but after that i dont want to put them back into the pond after how do i treat a pond? i have the oscar and barbs in the 10 gallon and all the others are in a 3 gallon and WORST of all my pregnant guppie has it too i am at a fork in the road and i dont eant to loose any more than i already, i lost my yellow gupp to my oscar , i lost an orange sunset platty and a metalic guppie to well i think it was ick but they were dead when i saw them this morning.

Mix 1 ML clove oil in one gallon water. Place fish in water. When they're "knocked out" ( should lay on their side), add approximately 10 ML vodka. Wait 30 seconds.

Would be better to acclimate them into a tank with a higher temp ( 85F plus if they can take it), add an air stone, use rid-ich or another formalin/malachite green treatment, and see what happens. If you're dead set on euthanizing them though, that is the most humane, imo. The clove oil acts as an anesthetic and the vodka kills them.

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i just checked on the tigers and i have come t othe sad conclusion that i must put them to sleep, how should i go alon with this? i feel realy bad and they are at times just blowing with the current of the filter, so how do i do this? and none of this freezing crap i want this to be jus tseconds and no pain or suffication i did this to them it only feels right to end their suffering with me for good.

like 76 gallons, when i drain and scrub the pond in like a few mins i will fill it up gallon by gallon

How big is the pond?

it was only temporary, i am getting their new tank next week, but it doesnt get cold, it stays between 70 and 80 and if their is any cold weather or WAY too warm weather they come in and i put them where i can but this is the first problem i have EVER had in a month but i guess it was wrong to do this, i guess i will just stick to minnows and rosys insted

I'm afraid to ask...

You have tropical fish in an outdoor pond??

Do you live in Nairobi??

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Okay just so u kno, ick is more than a disease. It is a parasite. It is a living organism. It infests a whole tank. They lay their eggs in the gravel and the babys swim up to the fish. ALL FISH. By moving the fish, you have spread this parasite to another tank. don't get discouraged though. U just need to forget the babies of the guppy because she can easily have more. U need to consintrate on saving the lives of all the fish. Treat every tank that has any ich in them. Treat the whole tank and dont move the fish any more.

i never took her of them, the oscar is only 3 in and NEEDS to be treated i alredy thought about just forgetting the fry, there is nothing i could do, by the looks of it the tigers had it the longest, she stayed in the house, had no contack with another fish, i just saw a tiger covered with it in 1 of the ponds, so i checked them all out and only 1 or 2 dident have it but im treating them any way i wish i could just start over but thats just not an option now, my oscar does not have it bad at all just 1 or 2 spots but i only have 2 places t otreat and i wasnt about to put live berrers in with the oscar and fin nippers in with the long fined so i put them how i felt it would be safest i am sorry i ever started a pond and if i never got the oscar i wouldent have the live berrers i wouldent have itch i...i wouldent have any fish i guess iwant ment to have them , apparently i cant care as much as i thought i could.

U shouldn't keep an oscar in a 10 gallon at all. U shouldn't have community fish with it at all. Also u need to treat the tanks with an ick med. I told u that u would spread the parasite to another tank if u moved the fish. But now that you are in this rut, I will try to help u out. Forget about the babies. They will die of the ick if u dont use the meds.