What Do You Do When Fish Start Having Ich?

[Batmanjay28]

This morning I noiced that 4 or 5 of my neons had ich on their bodies. Just like one or two spots thats all. I did a 50% water change this morning and added some ich cure. Is there anything else I can do?

 

[WILDER]

If they look like they have been sprinkled in salt yes it whitespot.
Remove black carbon from the filter if you use it.
Turn temp up to 30.
And very important that you increase areration in the tank with the high temp and med, as it reduces 02 in the water.

 

[tophat665]

This morning I noiced that 4 or 5 of my neons had ich on their bodies. Just like one or two spots thats all. I did a 50% water change this morning and added some ich cure. Is there anything else I can do?

Well, first you do a forum search, because this has been answered a bunch.

Raise your temp up as high as the fish can handle (84F is a good temp) a couple of degrees a day. The ich parasite is only susceptible to medications in it's free swimming stage, and higher temps make it run through it's life cycle faster. Keep up the ich cure treatement for a week unless systems persist, then continue for another week. Then add carbon to your filter (to get the residual medication out) and lower the temp a couple degrees a day until it's normal. If you have scaleless fish or small scaled fish (loaches, cories, elephant noses) then halve the dose and double the duration.

 

[WILDER]

Becareful with the neons and watch them as they can be funny with parasite meds, so read instructions carefully that you can add the full dose.

http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml