Help, I Think My Fish Has Ich.

[animals970]

Hi, I got a female guppy and she was fine when I got her, but a few days ago she got kinda big on her side, I just thought she was pregnant, then the next day it started spreading and it is really white, and its kinda bumpy, it looks like a rash. She got worse and worse, until finnally today she is still alive, but just kinda floats around on her side and sometimes straight up. And I have already done some research about Ich and it said that they will have little white specs on their fins and sadly I noticed them this morning. And also her gill are red, and I know its probally Ammonia and I'm trying to get it down. (the level is 0.25) Please help. If you think its something else please tell me how to treat it.

 

[animals970]

no need to help me now my fish has died

 

[saffholly]

Poor fishy.

Not sure if it was ich, my molly had it a few weeks ago but it did not spread that fast, i treated the whole tank and my molly recovered.

Did you cycle your tank before adding the fish?

It could just be that she was infected when you bought her, if she came from a pet store then this is quite common, i have lost quite a few withing a couple days of buying them.

 

[animals970]

I had the tank set up with a filter for 3 weeks, it could be infection from the pet store, but the fish always look so healthy at that pet store(its a family owned pet store) i've never seen a dead fish there, and i always see them at petsmart. Also I was going to get Ich treatment at another pet store the day she died, but they were not open.

 

[saffholly]

If you have other fish in the tank i would treat it anyway, if it is ich it can live in the filter for a while and infect the other fish. I think sometimes these things just happen (sometimes due to water quality, temprature change or infection from other fish).

 

[Tuxyu3]

Did you use mature filter media or cycle the tank? Your description does not sound like it is just ich, i have never heard of a fish just bloating and floating around just because of ich, normally the ich will become noticeable weeks before this point. I think it is very likely this has a lot to do with ammonia, 0.25ppm is the point at which it becomes potentially deadly to fish. If it is ich the white specks wll not just be on the fins, they will be on the body to. If indeed ich is in the tank the parasite will survive in the water column for a number of days wthout a host so treatment is still recommended. You should be doing very large temperature matched water changes each day if the filter bacteria are not processing ammonia.

 

[dce527]

Did you use mature filter media or cycle the tank? Your description does not sound like it is just ich, i have never heard of a fish just bloating and floating around just because of ich, normally the ich will become noticeable weeks before this point. I think it is very likely this has a lot to do with ammonia, 0.25ppm is the point at which it becomes potentially deadly to fish. If it is ich the white specks wll not just be on the fins, they will be on the body to. If indeed ich is in the tank the parasite will survive in the water column for a number of days wthout a host so treatment is still recommended. You should be doing very large temperature matched water changes each day if the filter bacteria are not processing ammonia.

can you you cycle the tank i need to do that before the 5th