scotty24fan

I have a 10 gallon tank with 2 neon tetras and 1 cardinal tetra. The tank has been set up for about a month. After it was set up for about two days I bought six cardinal tetras and put them in the tank. Well of course I didn't research anything until things started to go bad. Thats when I found this site adn learned about the CYCLE. I bought a test kit and performed water changes daily and tested the water daily unfortunatly only one cardinal survived my stupid mistakes. The water was great after about a month
0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, .5 nitrate. So I went to the LPS and wanted to buy more cardinals because they do better in schools of six. They didn't have any and wouldn't get them for a couple weeks. So they recommeded neons since they are a close relative. I purchase 3 of them thinking I would get some cardinals later on. One neon died the next day but the other 2 seem fine. All the fish eat well and swim around happily. Then I noticed that one neon has gotten white spots on his tail fins. I looked here and found that it sounds like ICH. I slowly increase water temp to 84 degrees and changed about 10 to 20 percent daily but had no luck. So I bought Jungle Ick Guard and followed the instructions. After one day the ICH seemed to be gone. On the second day I changed about 30 percent of the water and put in a new charcol filter. The next day I noticed that the same fish got the spots back. UGH! Did I do something wrong? It is ick isn't it? Do I need to use some kind of Fungel treatment? Any help for this newbie fish keeper is appreciated. Thanks.

Wolfgang8810

when you are using medications for fish you are supposed to remove your charcol filter because it takes out the meds. also there have been recorded cases where the ich parasite has survived in water at 90 d3egrees. I am at the end of my 1st ich epasode too i have had my water temp at 86 to 89 for the past two weeks and have been using a product called ich attack. It is an all natural ich medication that wont turn your silicone blue or stain your water. you can get it on the Dr. Fosters and Smith website. you may want to read this article http://www.fishlore.com/Articles/CuringIch.htm lots of useful info. I also have cardinals and they are very sensitive to water parameters. taking an extra long time acclimating them is a necessity. I let the bag sit for 15 mind then added some tank water then waited 15 more mins and emptied a little more than half of the water in the bag and replaced it with my tank water, and i did thie for about an hour and a half an i diddnt lose one of my little fellas. good luck with your tank i hope everything gioes well;

Mark

COBettaCouple

Yea, you'll want to leave the carbon out.. keep the temp at least at 83 consistently for 2 weeks even if they look to be clear.. and clean the substrata. That Ich-Attack is what we use as well.

♥ashley♥

buy "ick guard" for your tank. it comes in the white bottle with an orange molly on it. it costs about $4.99 depending where you go. i think it's great! but there are also many other medicin for curing ick, just be sure not to overdose your fish or else they will die.

Wolfgang8810

got the ich atack idea from you guys dave its working great! im going to be doing a water change then adding the carbon filters back in and finish stocking my tank yay!

COBettaCouple

cool.. i love the ich-attack. it's nice having something that doesn't mess up the good bacteria or put stress on the fishes systems.

Wolfgang8810

uip i have gone through the whole bottle though treating my 50 gallon

COBettaCouple

yea, that's why we order it from DFS.. it's so much cheaper than the LPS's.

Wolfgang8810

even with shipping and handeling? mine ended up being like 15 bucks but im in florida

COBettaCouple

we were too, until september.. DFS does shipping based on how much your order total is. We usually order a number of things at once and that helps spread the shipping out, but there are quite a few items that ordering just that item from DFS would be cheaper with shipping than buying the same item at the store plus sales tax.