Nikki - your bettas and guppies

thank you, I did get your last post and copied it, I have it wrote down and
started that day, it has not been soon enough to see a physical difference
but they are looking more "up" swimming around more.
(that is what I was worried about, weather they could handle a whole
treatment of ick)
But I am going to follow what you said and hope for the best
I will update this thread when I get back from the dr with my son, he broke
his collar bone playing football, my second female guppy had her babies, I
removed them from the tank, as to not cause any more problems.
Nikki
again thank you so much for taking the time to help me
i was going to say the same thing, i posted about a couple different things
and it ended up all over, i was trying to answer when someone ask me
something but it ended up like that





"Altum" wrote in message
et...
I'm not even going to try to quote... ;-) I've tried to give you
directions but they're spread out and buried in different threads.

First, you're changing water in all your tanks. This is the most
important thing. It will keep the baby guppies alive and heal the bettas.
Once you've done a week of 50% changes and all the fish seem OK, go to 50%
twice a week for the babies and 50% a week for the adults. You can go to
50% a week on the babies too after the first six weeks when you slow down
on the food.

Salt and guppies. Put 1 tsp/gallon in the guppy water for both babies and
adults (dissolve it first and pour it in over a couple hours). When you
change water, put 1 tsp/gallon in the replacement water. When you add
water to replace evaporated water, do not add salt. Your guppies will
always be happy with some salt in the water.

Salt and bettas. Bettas do not like salt. Only use salt for bettas if
they are sick AND you are using no other medicines.

Bettas and ich. Use your Rid-Ich+. While you see spots, add a fresh dose
every day after a 50% water change. Once the spots are gone, treat the
next day, and then start treating every third day for two weeks (this is
different than the label says but has worked really well for me). It
keeps the ich from coming back. Do NOT use salt while you are using
Rid-Ich+ on any soft water fish like bettas.

As long as you are doing the 50% water changes between doses and using no
other treatments, you will not hurt the bettas with Rid-Ich+. It should
only take 3-4 days for spots to disappear at 80F.

Fin damage. Change water daily until the fins start to heal. The fin
margins will start looking smoother and then begin to grow. The Rid-Ich+
you're already using will help them avoid finrot and fungus. 50% a day is
fine. Once the fins look better, go to changing 50% every third day
(before the Rid-Ich+ doses will be easy). Finally, level off at 50% a
week when the fins are growing well.

I hope this is clear and that you don't lose any more fish!

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