Question about Ich

[Breakthecycle2]

Ok, hey everyone. Heres the thing, My tank is two weeks old. I have been testing the water everyday, starting at day 3/4. My initial readings were Nitrate 0 and ammonia 0. Now it's Nitrate 0, maybe .25, can't exactly tell and ammonia 4. I made the initial mistake and basically stocked my tank in two days. I have only lost 2 fish, a pink tiger barb and a blue ram. I currently have 3 neon tetras, 6 black neon tetras, 2 "neon" or rosy barbs and 2 Bolivian Rams. The neon tetras developed Ich and I used Maricyn? and it cleared it up. Now all 6 Black neons have it and its pretty bad. I raised the temp to about 84 degrees and it keeps coming back. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have done 2 partial (30%) water changes so far.

 

[pnyklr3]

Try to find someone, or the lfs, to give you a handful of gravel from an established tank that has been running, and cycled, for a long time. This should help speed up the cycling. Not sure what to do about the ich during a cycle. Keep doing the water chagnes, and do them daily.

Raising the temp too 84 will do nothing but make the ich reproduce faster. You will need to add aquarium salt along with the higher temps.

 

[IMCL85]

welcome to tff forums. its bad to heard u lose two fish little fish. as for the ich problem you should first know the cycle of ich which can be found in one of our faq guild in emergincy forums. Now if I were u I would start with a 25% water changing vacum gravel and then raising tempature farder more 86+. at that temperature its all ready prety hard for ich parasite to complete their life cycle. sometime during horrible out break I even raise my tank temperature to 95f ofcourse that apply to species of fish that can take that temperature. And during this time u should make alot of small water change like 25% every 2-3 days to vacum those parasite attach to ur gravel reach is one of ich parasite life cycle. If you find that heat treatment wouldn't work then just switch to other medicine. I find that ich guard and sup ich guard works great on ich out break. Good luck to ya

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Thanks for your replies. I have just added aquarium salt today, this morning actually. I had many fish tanks growing up, just not in like 12 years, so when I bought everything, the guy at the store told me to let everything run for 2 days and that it would be ok to add as mnay fish as I wanted. I wish I waited but they seem to be ok so fay aside from thr Ich. The Blue Ram died overnight after I first added him and the pink tiger barb just died all of a sudden. Ill try raising the temperature a bit more and do another water change tomorrow. How long should I continue the partial water changes pn a daily basis for?

 

[IMCL85]

I leave my temperature high for about 2weeks in an ich outbreak just to ensure they dont come back. And do about 3-4 small water change a week for about 3 weeks. I would do this until I see no sign of ich for atleast a week or so.