Betta Fry With Ich

[juliehainsworth]

Ok I think its ich that my fry have as they look like they are coated in salt! They are between 8-10 days old? I seem to be loosing at least 5 a day at the moment (well it seems like it anyway). I have about 40 fry left!

Does anyone know how i should go about treating this? I'm not sure whether to add salt or a very small amount of whitespot treatment!

 

[SandyMushCowgirl]

What's the temperature? I would add a little bit of salt. And depending on the temp I'd raise it a little bit.

 

[juliehainsworth]

I think temp is about 26ºC! Any ideas how much salt? (I don't want to overdose them)


Thanks for replying

 

[SandyMushCowgirl]

I would bring it up to 27 or 28. Generally it's one tsp of salt per gallon but I would put a little less for fry.

 

[juliehainsworth]

Will try that then!

Thank you

 

[SandyMushCowgirl]

You're very welcome. I hope they get better soon. Good luck.

 

[wuvmybetta]

An easy dose of methylene blue will help, too.

 

[juliehainsworth]

Thanks I'll try the methylene blue too!

I'm a bit happier this morning as none have died off over night! I just hope I can get them past 2 wks this time or even better get them through to adulthood! Then again if not I could always just try again!

 

[Joby]

Hope they pull through for you

 

[juliehainsworth]

Thanks Joby!

 

[Bubblegrrl]

Good luck! I hope they get better for you.

Debs

 

[Neal]

I'm sure they will be fine, you seem to know what you are doing with them, I think they are in safe hands!

 

[juliehainsworth]

Thanks for the compliment but I owe alot of it down to everyone on TFF if it wasnt for you lot I would be up the creek without a paddle!

Unfortunately I lost another one over night and I expect to go home and find more dead as my brine shrimp hatchery failed but hopefully I'm just being overworried only just under 2 hours to go til I can put my mind to rest!

 

[juliehainsworth]

Just been reading up on Velvet and am starting to wonder if they actually have velvet instead? If so should I do anything different?

 

[Synirr]

Methylene blue works for velvet too