Is it Ick? Ick treatment?

Does this look like Ick? How is it treated? What do I do? Sorry the picture is so awful.. It's not so easy to take a picture of a swimming fish.

Does this look like Ick? How is it treated? What do I do? Sorry the picture is so awful.. It's not so easy to take a picture of a swimming fish.

I have this treatment. Is it okay?

I have this treatment. Is it okay?

Well I did it. Now everything is blue. Including my hand. It says if it doesn't fix it to do a 25% water change and treat again in 24hrs.

My main question is, where the heck did this come from? Its been 10 days since we added any fish. (the fish that has it is one of the newbies)

 

I have treated ick with sensitive, scaless fish with only heat. I have not used meds to treat ick, but follow the instructions. It does look like ick to me

 

The instructions aren't very clear to me. I did the one treatment. And when should I see a change?
How likely is it my fish will die.

 

As quick as 24 hrs but you need to treat the tank a week or two afterwards to make sure its gone.

 

So should I treat every day for a week?

Or just today and then again in a week. It said that I had to remove the filter while it was in there. When can I put them back in? Should I get new cartridges or are the ones I had okay? I*just* replaced them

 

From what I have read your not supposed to remove your filter, just the carbon rocks if your filter has them. The directions on your bottle say to treat every 24 hrs if the symptoms persist with a 25% water changes every new dose.

 

Yeah I removed the carbon. Not the whole filter. Should have been more descriptive. Should I replace the carbon after this is over or put the old one back in? I don't want to reintroduce bacteria. But I also just replaced the cartridges and don't want to buy again if I don't have to.

 

1. Remove carbon,
2. 50% water change,
3. Dose treatment
4. 24 hours later repeat 2 and 3
Do a total of 3 days of treatment, day 4 do just #2 and repeat again on #5.

If you don't see results after step 4 (72 hours do one more day, KEEP UPDATES, you can't 'under water change') make sure you have 0 ammonia during this(can be multi-plicately worse), daily testing, treating water if you normally do.

And yes, if the treatment is blue... So is your silicon and water. The water will fade clear, your siding will stay blue for a while. (QT tank is nice if using a cheaper med)

 

1. Remove carbon,
2. 50% water change,
3. Dose treatment
4. 24 hours later repeat 2 and 3
Do a total of 3 days of treatment, day 4 do just #2 and repeat again on #5.

If you don't see results after step 4 (72 hours do one more day, KEEP UPDATES, you can't 'under water change') make sure you have 0 ammonia during this(can be multi-plicately worse), daily testing, treating water if you normally do.

And yes, if the treatment is blue... So is your silicon and water. The water will fade clear, your siding will stay blue for a while. (QT tank is nice if using a cheaper med)

Thanks so much. This exactly what I've been doing. I'm on day 3. As of now just one of our 7 fish is infected. Unfortunately it's the favorite fish of my 5 year old. As of today, he seems worse. Hanging out in the bottom of the tank, breathing deeply it seems as if he's struggling. Does this mean it's not working? He seems to have less spots. But clearly isn't acting right. Any advice here?

My biggest question is, where did this come from? How can they catch something when I haven't introduced any new fish or anything?

 

He died.

 

Sorry for your loss

 

I'm sorry to hear that. Sometimes they can have ich in them before taking them home and its more 'internal' and no outside symptoms. Often I would assume from not clean enough water, (atleast a 25% or more weekly change?)

I have both had luck, and not had luck. Some fish seem to handle it better than others. Sorry I can't be any more help. =[