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Hello everybody,
I would really appreciate your advice!
I bought four new imported hifin plates from a local fish store. They are currently in a 10-gal bare-bottom QT tank, and have already gone through four days of API General Cure + Kanaplex (two treatments 48 hours apart) + aquarium salt (the standard 1 tbsp per 5 gal) treatment due to flashing. Well, the flashing is gone, BUT... one fish has several white-ish dots on its tail fin (that at first did not look like ich but rather like just a few small "stains" on its tail fin, but today it does look more like ich, same spots on its tail fin) and another fish has what looks like either tail damage (the only male was mean to her at first) or tail rot. What do I do? My understanding is that it may or may not be ich as there are other diseases that look alike (e.g. tetrahymena, trichodina, chilodonella and costia). And also, with the other fish, it may or may not be fin rot. What do I do???
This morning when I saw that it looks more like ich, I dosed Kordon Ich Attack (this is my first time using this medication). It looks like reviews for Kordon Ich Attack are controversial: it seems to work for some and not for others. Just in case it does not work on its own, can it be combined with meds like Tropical Science Fishkeeper (supposedly, natural formula as well although it is a red flag for me that ingredients are not listed) or Seachem MetroPlex (if it is indeed ich or other protozoa)? What do I do? I feel so over my head right now!
Medications that I do already have on hand are: Seachem KanaPlex, Seachem Metroplex, API General Cure, Furan 2, Erythromycin, Fritz Expel-P, Hikari PraziPro, Tropical Science Fishkeeper, Kordon Ich Attack. I do want to avoid using Furan 2 and Erythromycin if at all possible since both affect beneficial bacteria.
Attached fish on attached photo #1 is NOT of the exact fish that I bought, but from the SAME TANK that mine came from at the fish store. Some of the fish at the store did have these whitish "stains" on its tails (shown on the photo). Although the one that I got looks more like ich, they did also start as these "stains," but smaller and rounder than those on the photo, but this morning did look more like ich. I am about 80% sure that photo #2 features the exact female that I end up buying and now had white spots (on that photo with just one small spot on her tail and now there are several, maybe 5 or 7 of such spots).
Do I continue dosing Kordon Ich Attack twice a day since I already started?? Do I maybe combine it with Tropical Science Fishkeeper since it claims to be of a broader spectrum formulary and both are supposedly natural and harmless (neither however lists ingredients, which does not help with public confidence-building, IMO). Please HELP!! Thank you so much in advance!
I would really appreciate your advice!
I bought four new imported hifin plates from a local fish store. They are currently in a 10-gal bare-bottom QT tank, and have already gone through four days of API General Cure + Kanaplex (two treatments 48 hours apart) + aquarium salt (the standard 1 tbsp per 5 gal) treatment due to flashing. Well, the flashing is gone, BUT... one fish has several white-ish dots on its tail fin (that at first did not look like ich but rather like just a few small "stains" on its tail fin, but today it does look more like ich, same spots on its tail fin) and another fish has what looks like either tail damage (the only male was mean to her at first) or tail rot. What do I do? My understanding is that it may or may not be ich as there are other diseases that look alike (e.g. tetrahymena, trichodina, chilodonella and costia). And also, with the other fish, it may or may not be fin rot. What do I do???
This morning when I saw that it looks more like ich, I dosed Kordon Ich Attack (this is my first time using this medication). It looks like reviews for Kordon Ich Attack are controversial: it seems to work for some and not for others. Just in case it does not work on its own, can it be combined with meds like Tropical Science Fishkeeper (supposedly, natural formula as well although it is a red flag for me that ingredients are not listed) or Seachem MetroPlex (if it is indeed ich or other protozoa)? What do I do? I feel so over my head right now!
Medications that I do already have on hand are: Seachem KanaPlex, Seachem Metroplex, API General Cure, Furan 2, Erythromycin, Fritz Expel-P, Hikari PraziPro, Tropical Science Fishkeeper, Kordon Ich Attack. I do want to avoid using Furan 2 and Erythromycin if at all possible since both affect beneficial bacteria.
Attached fish on attached photo #1 is NOT of the exact fish that I bought, but from the SAME TANK that mine came from at the fish store. Some of the fish at the store did have these whitish "stains" on its tails (shown on the photo). Although the one that I got looks more like ich, they did also start as these "stains," but smaller and rounder than those on the photo, but this morning did look more like ich. I am about 80% sure that photo #2 features the exact female that I end up buying and now had white spots (on that photo with just one small spot on her tail and now there are several, maybe 5 or 7 of such spots).
Do I continue dosing Kordon Ich Attack twice a day since I already started?? Do I maybe combine it with Tropical Science Fishkeeper since it claims to be of a broader spectrum formulary and both are supposedly natural and harmless (neither however lists ingredients, which does not help with public confidence-building, IMO). Please HELP!! Thank you so much in advance!
