Ick On Painted Glass?

[shsinha]

I have a pair of painted glass fish (did not know that they were artificially colored) and one of them has got ick (fins has white dots like salt/sugar particle) for last 2 weeks. In the beginning I put that fish in a half gallon container with ick guard medicine. 12 hours later, it was in terrible shape and floating near the surface (probably ammonia went up). i put it back to the community tank and couple of hours later, it was doing fine. I know that painted glass fish are weak and don't survive long. Should I do anything? Also, would this ick can affect other fishes (they are doing fine for last 10-14 days)?

 

[BigIan]

I have a pair of painted glass fish (did not know that they were artificially colored) and one of them has got ick (fins has white dots like salt/sugar particle) for last 2 weeks. In the beginning I put that fish in a half gallon container with ick guard medicine. 12 hours later, it was in terrible shape and floating near the surface (probably ammonia went up). i put it back to the community tank and couple of hours later, it was doing fine. I know that painted glass fish are weak and don't survive long. Should I do anything? Also, would this ick can affect other fishes (they are doing fine for last 10-14 days)?

by ick do you mean ich? as in white spot?

if so then you should treat the entire comunity tank as it is a paracite and can easily transfer from one fish to another, so treating the whole tank in one go eliminates the chance of re-infection or transferance

 

[WILDER]

I would put them back in the main tank, and treat the whole tanks as once you have whitespot it affects the whole tank, usally apart from corys who seem not to suffer from whitespot.
Once the gills are really affected the fish don't seem to make it, turn temp up to 30, increase aeration as with the med and high temp less 02 in the water.

 

[zelandonia]

Don't give up hope just because it's a glass fish. I have a glass fish that is 2 years old that survived a bout of Ick when I first got my aquarium. Read up on how to treat ick and hopefully your fish will survive. As already mentioned, you need to treat the entire tank and not just the fish to kill the parasite because the stage that is susceptible to be killed is actually the stage when it is off the fish not on the fish.

Good luck!!

z.

 

[shsinha]

I read the pinned article too. Yeah, It is Ich and not ick. I will try to put a picture also 4-5 hours later so people can confirm that it is ich. From the Ich article, I would have to do the following: change water, increase the temperature and then treat with ich guard. I also have a Pleco and some live plants. I hope that it is not problem. Also, I was wondering if I need to worry about filter (with activated carbon filter).

 

[WILDER]

Just read the instructions to make sure you can use full dose with all the fish you have.
You will have to remove the black carbon out of the filter or it will be a waste of time adding the med, as that what black carbon is for removing meds, i would get treating as whitespot can soon kill a fish.

 

[shsinha]

These are the pictures. Can someone confirm if they are ich and I should use "Ick Guard"made by junglelabs.com .

another picture

another picture

 

[WILDER]

Are the patches fluffy looking, hard to tell, whitespot that has been left untreated can start to grow in patches, i will leave you a link just to make sure it isn't columnaris.

http/article.discusnews.com/cat-02/columnaries.shtml

 

[shsinha]

the white stuffs are on FINs only, not on the body. I have not put ICK clear medicine yet. There is no white patch on the body except all fins.

 

[shsinha]

The more I read about Ich, it looks as if they are not ich. They are not forming on glass fish body. Ich disease (parasite) spreads and moves on the body, detaches and multiplies, infects other fishs, but it didn't happen to my other fishes. Also, my other glass fish would run after the infected fish occasionally and the infected fish hides often except when it needs food. It has good appetite also.

 

[zelandonia]

If they are raised, white bumps that resemble grains of salt than it is likely Ich. (I usually just type Ick cause that's how I feel about it, sorry). It is a protozoan called Ichthyophthirius multifiliis that lives within the fish's epithelium for part of its lifecycle. You can presume that if your fish has white spots than there are many hundreds more of the protozoan parasite in the water and encysted on the substrate in your aquarium. The real problem for your fish is the damage to the epithelium when the protozoa breaks out to complete its lifecycle. Here is a picture of a fish with Ich, does it resemble what your glass fish has? I think the spots behind the dorsal fin are more representative rather that the big patch on its head. It is a little tough to tell from your picture but the spots around his mouth look like Ich to me. When my glass fish had Ich he also had some white areas his tail and dorsal fin that weren't raised but seemed to go away with treatment.

z.

 

[WILDER]

Look under ich and columnaris.

http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm

This is what ich looks like.

 

[shsinha]

Look under ich and columnaris.

http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm

This is what ich looks like.

In my case, it must be something other than Ich or columnaris.
*Fish has been like that for more than 10 days (Ich should spread in 6-24 hours).
*Fish does not rub its body with other stuff.
*Not infecting body.

I am testing the Icl clear on one fish before I try on the whole aquarium. I will update tomorrow if it helped.

 

[WILDER]

I would get a bacterial med in the tank, as if the fish are not flicking it could be columnaris.