Might Have Ich

[Kirahn]

I have a cardinal tetra that white spots showed up on yesterday. It has 3-4 spots that are slightly raised, I'd show you but I can't get a photo, it's moving around too much.

I haven't gotten any new fish for a while though I did get a couple nerite snails about 2 weeks ago. My tank parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate, ph 7.6. I do weekly 30-50% water changes where I vacuum about half the gravel at a time. I moved the tank 4 days ago to prepare for an upgrade, I moved all my fish to a bucket during the tank move. Then put them all back in with about 5 gallons of old tank water. I've been doseing seachem stress guard to help with the stress of moving.

Could the snails have brought ich to my tank? Or did the stress of the tank move possibly cause it? Or could it be something other than ich?

Assuming it is ich. I've started raising the tank water slowly from 78, after about 4 hours it looks like my heater is going to max out at 83.8 F. Is that enough for the heat treatment or am I going to need to get another heater? I have a new one coming Tuesday or Wednesday for my new tank I can use if needed.

 

[richiep]

I think There are two possible causes, the move stressed them, and the snails I think I'd go with the snails as they can carry ich as it attaches itself to the shell, they are only carriers, king british have a white spot treatment if the temp dos'nt work, when you see the spots disappear do a good gravel vac to get rid of anything there, I prefer the treatment to temp, you seem to be on top of it

 

[Kirahn]

The treatments all seem to not recommend using with inverts and talk about half dosing for fish without scales. I have the snails, corys and a bn pleco so the heat seemed the safest route. Plus some of the treatments say they can stain decor and I'd rather not have to empty my tank. Is the treatment you use have those issues?

 

[richiep]

See where your coming from and yes there are issues with inverts with a lot of chemicals, my shrimp and snails have tanks of their own so I don't get the issue there, ive had it in a community tank and treated with British king

Thinking about it the only other option is to eather move the snails and treat the tank or move the fish to a treatment tank

 

[fish 321]

I have used an ich medicine with mystery snails and scaleless fish but only used half dose and it did not seem to affect them. I used API super ick cure but the down side is it seems to stain any thing that's plastic and clear, it stained my silicone and air tubing.

 

[richiep]

Come to think of it I did put a nerite snail in one of my community tanks and treated for two separate 7 days and the snail is still in there and I used king british

 

[Kirahn]

Thanks for the info. I'll probably pick up the Ich cure tonight.