Ich issue with community tank!! Please help!!!!

[Emilyalexxis]

I currently have a 36 gallon tank, with guppies, angel fish, gouramis and sucker fish. We have noticed that one of our new gouramis that we recently added has white spots on fins and body which is normally ich. We are using “Jungle Ick Clear Fizz tablets” as this was the only thing available Bc our fish store was closed when we noticed the ich. We also turned our heat up to 86F but sadly one our gouramis has died and it’s not the one with the ich showing, he started acting weird after turning the heat up. Also, we just found that our sucker fish has died too and we aren’t sure if it was the heat or the medicine. Our water quality is perfect but we do have these foamy bubbles on the top of the tank and aren’t sure why those are there.
Can anyone please help!!! We don’t want anymore fish dying but we are just trying to get rid of the ich!

 

[Sgooosh]

yeah, i dont know what "sucker fish " are there are a lot of fish that suck stuff. angel fish need very low ph, and gouramis and guppies need high ph . who got ich first?

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

You never use heat and chemicals together. Heat puts the fish under a lot of stress. So do the chemicals. Heat and chemicals both reduce the oxygen levels in the water. Using heat and chemicals regularly kills the fish.

To treat white spot, you either use heat (30C/ 86F for 2 weeks) or you use chemical medications. Heat is safer.

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Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge.

Do a 80-90% water change and gravel clean the substrate. The water change and gravel cleaning will reduce the number of disease organisms in the water and provide a cleaner environment for the fish to recover in.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it is added to the tank.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. However, if the filter is less than 6 weeks old, do not clean it. Wash the filter materials/ media in a bucket of tank water and re-use them. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the garden/ lawn. Cleaning the filter means less gunk and cleaner water with fewer pathogens.

Increase surface turbulence/ aeration when using salt or medications because they reduce the dissolved oxygen in the water.

Keep the water temperature at 30C /86F for 2 weeks or at least 1 week after all the shite spots have disappeared.

 

[Emilyalexxis]

yeah, i dont know what "sucker fish " are there are a lot of fish that suck stuff. angel fish need very low ph, and gouramis and guppies need high ph . who got ich first?

Sorry I should have specified, it’s a pleco and one of the gouramis is the one that has ich, he’s the only one with white spots, no one else is showing any signs.

 

[Essjay]

angel fish need very low ph, and gouramis and guppies need high ph

Just a comment - angelfish and gouramis need low GH. Guppies need high GH. Gouramis need the same type of water as angelfish.

 

[Sgooosh]

Just a comment - angelfish and gouramis need low GH. Guppies need high GH. Gouramis need the same type of water as angelfish.

Yes i think either one or the others species is getting weakened and accidentally got ich becausse of the water conditions weaking them .

 

[Colin_T]

fish don't get whitespot from being weak. They get it from contaminated fish, plants or water that is added to their tank.