I had a small breakout of ICH in the tank, so I treated it with meds... and after 2 doses, I noticed that my chinese algae eater and my catfish were getting sick. I proceeded by treating the ICH with a temp of 83 and daily water changes of about 25% rather than using the medicine.
Throughout the ICH breakout, I saw tiny bits of flicking here and there but my fish remained healthy looking and relatively normal, with the exception of my silver molly (who was the fish that I originally saw the whitespot on).
Today I went to do a water change as usual, then went out for a few hours, came back (turned the light on to see how the fishies were doin), and noticed that both my catfish and my algae eater look lighter in colour. My algae eater looks VERY pale, almost white!
The ammonia and nitrates are good, ph is good, i put the tap-water conditioner in, the temp is still 83... I can't think of what could have triggered this, other than maybe the water change was too stressful (25% - 30% was too much?)
Throughout the ICH breakout, I saw tiny bits of flicking here and there but my fish remained healthy looking and relatively normal, with the exception of my silver molly (who was the fish that I originally saw the whitespot on).
Today I went to do a water change as usual, then went out for a few hours, came back (turned the light on to see how the fishies were doin), and noticed that both my catfish and my algae eater look lighter in colour. My algae eater looks VERY pale, almost white!
The ammonia and nitrates are good, ph is good, i put the tap-water conditioner in, the temp is still 83... I can't think of what could have triggered this, other than maybe the water change was too stressful (25% - 30% was too much?)
