disease id help needed

[Lydia]

I have a 10 gallon tank. It contained 1 kissing gourami, 1 3-spot gourami,
1 "headstand" fish, and 1 tiger barb. The tank was cleaned about 3 weeks
ago. All was well afterwards. The tiger barb needed company, though. So I
bought 2 green tiger barbs and 1 albino tiger barb from PetSmart. After
introducing them to the tank one of the green tiger barbs died within a
couple days. The second green tiger barb began getting white spots all over
it's body about 4 days after joining the tank. I treated with Coppersafe.
A few more days later and ALL the fish in the tank began showing white spots
all over and the green tiger barb that had them first now also had almost no
tail fin. So I began treatment with tetracycline tablets. Then the
remaining green tiger barb died and yesterday I came home to a dead
headstand fish. The most recent symptom on the 3-spot gourami is a red
sore/spot where it's body meets the tailfin.

What is ravaging the tank and what ELSE can I treat it with to try to save
the few remaining fish?

I guess my lesson here is when introducing new fish, use a hospital tank,
eh? Although the tank the new barbs were in at PetSmart are still disease
free - I look each time I go to buy medicine.


Thanks so much for any help,
Lydia

[Surgicalrn]

It's Ich and you need something specific for it. The antibiotics you have
been using are for bacteria and Ich is a fungus. Get some sort of Ich cure
and add salt to the water. Aquarium salt! Not table salt.

[Paulo]

Ich a fungus? I understand that Ich is a parasite. I think you are worng
with your advise....

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Paulo
"Surgicalrn" > wrote in message
...
> It's Ich and you need something specific for it. The antibiotics you have
> been using are for bacteria and Ich is a fungus. Get some sort of Ich cure
> and add salt to the water. Aquarium salt! Not table salt.
>

[Geezer From The Freezer]

Paulo wrote:
>
> Ich a fungus? I understand that Ich is a parasite. I think you are worng
> with your advise....
>

Paulo is right. Get some ich treatment and raise the temp a couple of
degrees to speed up the ich lifecycle.

[Lydia]

Coppersafe said it was for Ich, Velvet and other parasites. Is there
another one that's better? The albino tiger barb died yesterday so I'm down
to 3 fish.

Thanks again for the help!
Lydia


"Geezer From The Freezer" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> Paulo wrote:
> >
> > Ich a fungus? I understand that Ich is a parasite. I think you are worng
> > with your advise....
> >
>
> Paulo is right. Get some ich treatment and raise the temp a couple of
> degrees to speed up the ich lifecycle.

[Surgicalrn]

Ripped from the net: "Ich is a protozoan disease that is often called 'white
spot disease.' The scientific name for the disease is ichthyophthiriasis and
the causative agent is Ichthyophthirius multifiliis."
Sorry- I stand corrected.