Coryd55

Well turns out the betta from thailand has ich. He has small white spots on his tail. About the size of a grain of salt. Also erratic swimming behaviors and scratch his side and caudal fin on sand and heater and rockin there. I a taking rock out so he downt injure him self. I got Virbac Maracide concentrate. I treated the betta in QT 1 drop per gallon(10 drops) and in the tank with corys I put 7 drops because I read that it can be harmful if a full dose is used. I will probably lower it to 5 drops(for the cory 10 gallon) tomorrow just to be safe. I will be doing this for 2 weeks to be completely sure that it is gone. The cories show no signs of ich but I am taking precautions.

On the other hand I finished my paludarium deconstruction/tank reconstruction Sunday(yesterday). I have water sprite(both kinds) and a cardinal plant. Flagstone piles. River rock substrate with a sand "river" going through it. I have 2 airstone on either side as well. Livestock is currently the 4 guppies that were in the paludarium. I want to get GBRs or Bolivian Rams though. Im not sure if they wouild work in there though. I would then transfer the guppies to the other 29 gallon once the CT betta is given to my brothers girlfriend to her birthday(Feb 21). Well hope you enjoy the pics!

Before and after =)

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susitna-flower

Coryd55, what is the temperature of your tank with ick?

If you will raise it above 82 it should take care of the problem, and keep it out. Your betta will love you......Don't they like higher temps?

Wolfgang8810

yea they will be fine. I would sugguest raising the temp to 86 and using an all natural ich treatment called "ickattack" They sell it at petco. Hope everything works out for you.

Is the seccond tank a terrarium (water and land)?

steveangela1

I agree w/ the above treatments, actually the raising the temp worked easier for me and w/ less casualties in my aquarium when I got ich from a lfs... I have had fish for years and only in the past couple months learned what ich even looked like!

Coryd55

It was a paludarium(half water half land) but the land kept flooding from either a poor silicone job or splash from waterfall(couldnt fix after 4 floods) so I switched it to a full aquarium.

I want to stock with German Blue Rams or Bolivians but I am not sure if that environment would be okay for them or if I should just get some more guppies and make it a guppy tank.

Also sorry to be but At night my guppies and my bettas lay/lie(not sure which is proper) on the bottom of the tank and once I turn on the lights in the morning they start swimming around normally again. Is this normal are they sleeping on the bottom or is there something wrong.

Thanks,

Cory

seedy

Not sure about those species but my angels do the same , has scared the heck out me , until you poke them ( scares them ) and they wake up .

Chief_waterchanger

Susitna-Flower is correct, 82 degrees is as high as the tank -needs- to go to treat Ich. If you keep it there for 2 weeks it will get rid of the parasite.

It is normal for guppies to "sleep" in such a manner. A lot of ours sleep just below the surface, but different fish do it differently. They're fine.

froggypat

My guppies only have 2 but their always a sleep on bottom when I turn the light back on takes a few mins. before they swim around hope that helps, by the way like your tank.

Coryd55

Thanks everyone. The betta seems to be doing extremely better. I will still keep both tanks on it for at least 1 week though. both tanks are at 81.5-82.3(highest and lowest its been)