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[Elisabeth83]

I'm treating my 26 gallon with JBL furanol because my siamese algae eater has pop-eye and an open wound. I'm on day 4 of the treatment (haven't actually given the 4th treatment yet) They say while treating keep the lights off..so I have but periodically turning them on to see if the fish are all still alive which they are.

Now for crappy part..I just go and turn on the lights and notice they all have ICK!! What should I do?? Should I stop treatment on the other stuff and start treatment for Ick??

Most of them have around 4-10 white grain like white spots on them.

Ugh....I'm about ready to jump in a lake which all the problems I've been having lately....it seems when things are so bad it couldn't get any worse..and yet it does

please please someone give me advice!!

 

[Elisabeth83]

I just saw the algae eater with the pop-eye and open wound and the pop-eye is still there maybe a little bit better than before but not by much. His wound is worse. I thought it was healing as it had a grayish covering over it yesterday but today it's bigger than it was and open with white and pink showing.

 

[d_rickard]

You really do need to quarantine the Loach and sort wound out as an isolated case. This then allows you to treat the general tank for the White-Spot. One of the smallish plastic aquariums would do for your loach with a small foam filter powered by an air stone would suffice

 

[Elisabeth83]

I just changed a lot of the water like I was supposed to and added some jbl denitrol and some jbl acclimol. One is supposed to help get the good bacteria back and the other one is supposed to reduce stress and strengthens the immune system...I'm supposed to add those after the treatment of the jbl furanol stuff.

I'm going to turn the temp up in my tank and keep it dark and pray the fish get better. I don't think they could handle another treatment of medicaiton.

UGH....

 

[d_rickard]

The treatments you refer to for bacteria and stress levels are just regular water treatments. You would normally add these to new water before pouring into the tank. Try the medications for white sport and the fungal disease to the tank in half dosages and keep an eye on the fish. If there are signs of distress then everything should be ok and you can try increasing the dosage every time you treat the tank and gradually work your way up to the recommended dosage.

If the above doesnt work, see if you can obtain a broad-spectrum bacteria treatment if you can find one and give that a go

 

[lsmall]

Is the popeye one sided or both eyes?
Both eyes is generally worse as it indicates a systemic problem rather than a localized problem.

One eye may be a tumor, abscess, or trauma.

LSmall

 

[Elisabeth83]

it's just the 1 eye that is infected. It has gotten somewhat better since I did the bacterial treatment.

 

[bigben]

like d_richard said you really should quarantine the loach to treat it. sounds like it could be a bacterial infection, so you should not raise the temperature. a salt bath could help heal the exterior wound.

while this is going on you could raise the temp in your tank and use proper ich medication to treat your other fish. good luck.