Thanks for the help, I think we'll definitly give the Protazin a try. Have
to gamble a couple of days with salt and temp raises with the carbon back in
to clean out the esha stuff.

Lost one of the neons today, hopefully the bristlenoses will hold on through
this, they were fairly healthy before.

Finger's crossed!



"Gill Passman" gillspamattaylorpassmanspam.co.uk wrote in message
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"Iain Miller" wrote in message
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"Clara" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm new to this group but looking for some help. We seem to have a very
persistant case of Ich in our tank.

Established (3years) 130 litre tank, water conditions are all as they
should be, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate around 10. Put in 9 new
neons
recently and we are assuming that's where the problem came from
(unfortunatly we don't have a quarantine tank).

Have treated with Esha Exit ( I think it's a malachite green based
formula
but no ingredients on packaging) as advised by the LFS, followed the
instructions and the problem appears to just get worse. Has been going
on
for about 10 days now and showing absolutely no signs of improvement,
just
gets worse every day.

I've read up on the other posts on here and have now switched off the
lights and raised the temp, and will try adding salt. My biggest concer
are my breeding pair of bristlenose catfish who have been in the tank
for
about 3 years now and are both showing signs of this problem.

Any advice/medication suggestions that anyone can think of would be
very
gratefully received

Getting quite desparate now :-(

Go and get some Protazin (made by Waterlife). Only use a 3/4 dose if you
have things like loaches. I don't bother with raising temps or adding
salt.
If you do raise temps then add an airstone - much less oxygen in warmer
water. Not keen on adding salt either - the plants don't like it.

Its a 5 or 6 day treatment & its never failed me yet. Remmeber that the
white spots you see on the fish are where the parasite eggs are buried
under
the skin. You can only kill the things once they erupt out & become free
swimming which takes a couple of days - so you won't see much change for
2-3
days. After all is done use some carbon in your filter to take the meds
back
out the water and a dose of Melafix won't hurt to help the fish heal.

I.



Yep, that was the last med that I used that finally cleared it