clown loach with ich

[Sarah Navarro]

I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green tiger
barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp is
at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite fishies.
Thanks.

Sarah

[Richard Sexton]

In article .net>,
Sarah Navarro > wrote:
>I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
>never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green tiger
>barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp is
>at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite fishies.
>Thanks.
>
>Sarah

The only thing I'd use is that stuff made by Jungle. You can get it in Wal MArt.
Everything else I try either doesn't kill the ick or kills the fish or plants or both.

Just dump the Jungle stuff in your tank, discontinue the any carbon
filtration if you have it and relax. You're done.

If you use a heater and your fish can handle it raise the temperature 4 degrees,
but this is not important. It just makes the cure 6 days insetad of 7. Big deal.
Yours at 80 is ok where it is.

There are two non-medicinal treatments too. You can put a diatom filter on the tank
and it will fitler Ick out. Or put the fish in a a small bare tank and change
100% of the water twice a day. Two weeks and they're cured. There's an article by
DIana Walstead about this - natural ick cure for a natural tank or something, in
this months TFH.

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[Sarah Navarro]

Oh, there is also a corydoras in there too.


"Sarah Navarro" > wrote in message
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>I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
>never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green tiger
>barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp is
>at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite fishies.
>Thanks.
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
>

[Sarah Navarro]

I have some of that on hand. I guess I will use the half dose for the
loaches as the package states. I hope it works.


"Richard Sexton" > wrote in message
...
> In article .net>,
> Sarah Navarro > wrote:
>>I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
>>never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green
>>tiger
>>barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp
>>is
>>at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite fishies.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Sarah
>
> The only thing I'd use is that stuff made by Jungle. You can get it in Wal
> MArt.
> Everything else I try either doesn't kill the ick or kills the fish or
> plants or both.
>
> Just dump the Jungle stuff in your tank, discontinue the any carbon
> filtration if you have it and relax. You're done.
>
> If you use a heater and your fish can handle it raise the temperature 4
> degrees,
> but this is not important. It just makes the cure 6 days insetad of 7. Big
> deal.
> Yours at 80 is ok where it is.
>
> There are two non-medicinal treatments too. You can put a diatom filter on
> the tank
> and it will fitler Ick out. Or put the fish in a a small bare tank and
> change
> 100% of the water twice a day. Two weeks and they're cured. There's an
> article by
> DIana Walstead about this - natural ick cure for a natural tank or
> something, in
> this months TFH.
>
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> Need Mercedes parts ? - http://parts.mbz.org
> http://www.mbz.org | Mercedes Mailing lists: http://lists.mbz.org
> 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | Killies, killi.net, Crypts, aquaria.net
> 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Old wris****ches http://watches.list.mbz.org

[sophie]

In message .net>,
Sarah Navarro > writes
>I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
>never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green tiger
>barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp is
>at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite fishies.
>Thanks.
>

a loach-specific ich page:

http://www.loaches.com/copper.html

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I have read somewhere in this newsgroup about using 1/2 dose of
coppersafe to cure ich on loachs.

[Gill Passman]

"sophie" > wrote in message
...
> In message .net>,
> Sarah Navarro > writes
> >I just noticed that one of my clown loaches is covered with ich. I have
> >never dealt with this before. He is in a tank with regular and green
tiger
> >barbs, a bala shark, khuli loaches, skirt tetras, and a pl*co. The temp
is
> >at 81 degrees. What do I do? Please help, these are my favorite
fishies.
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> a loach-specific ich page:
>
> http://www.loaches.com/copper.html
>
> --
> sophie

From what I've heard and IME what you need to do is treat the tank rather
than individual fish. The spores/cysts are water bound and this is how they
spread. Also the life cycle involves them dropping off the fish and starting
again. Raising the temp in the tank can speed up this cycle although it has
to be said your temp is fine for this providing it is in additon to
treatment - at this level the ich will be multiplying rapidly if you don't
treat it. There are a lot of medications/ways of treating Ich but the
important thing whatever you choose is to remember you need to treat it when
it is in the water rather than on the fish.

Personally I used Interpet Anti White Spot Plus - you need to remember to do
the two doses even if the fish seem clear after the first plus remove the
carbon (if you have it) from the filter. After the first treatment (around 4
weeks later) one of the clowns had one spot on him so I repeated the
medication -
have had none since. Only my clowns ever seemed to get it.

In terms of quarantine I'd be inclined to move whatever you have that will
be intolerant to the treatment rather than the infected fish....after all it
is carried in the water rather than the individual fish.

Hope this helps
Gill

BTW my two big Clowns who first had this are called Itchy and Scratchy
following the experience - LOL