I enjoy freshwater ich. what do i do ?
i have a 20 gallon fish tank. i have 2 zig zag eels, 1 12inch black rubber eel, and an amphibious frog. i am worried going on for using copper sulphate because i have not seen what this does to these animals. please only answers from other expert aquarium owners.
I use Ich. away surrounded by my tank to treat and prevent ich. The active ingredient is malachite green & this ingredient does not build up appreciably in the container or the fishes/ organisms systems. You need to remove your carbon filters for it to work properly & treat based on the number of gallons and give alone for 24 hours. After 24 or 48 hours change 1/2 of your water.
I'm guessing that individual your zigzag eels have this. The rubber eel is a kind of salamander (I nearly bought one of these 2 weeks ago), so I'm not sure if they can even get ich similar to a fish can. But he and your frog have very sensitive skin that can absorb the chemicals, and the copper could massacre them, so I would move them to a different tank. If I'm right about amphibians not getting ick, if you a moment ago moved them and none of their water to the new tank, they would be fine.
Your zig zag eels are your problem. They don't really resembling chemicals much either because they don't have scales to protect them from the chemicals. You only want a partially dose of whatever the instructions say. I wouldn't use anything next to copper, either, since this is harsher than some other kinds of medicine. I resembling Quick Cure which is malachite green. If you add this at 1/2 of the dose and turn up the temperature on your heater, you can snuff the ich. It may take a couple of weeks to get it all, and skulk a couple of days after the spots go away to do a water silver and take the medicine out just to be nontoxic.
I just found this on the internet that talks about meandering eels and ich. It says to use salt to cure the ich. http://www.fishinthe.net/html/section-vi...
Answers: i don't know like mad about aquariums but i'm really good at finding websites that answer questions. this is an experts evaluation on fish safety and ich treatments. i hope it helps it was extremely informative for me
if you hold ich and you dont have to use some of the medications at pet stores, put salt hose down in your tank. for a 20 gallon tank i would adivse give or take a few 5 tea spoons of salt in your tank. and next bathe the fish in a salt marine bath is 3 teaspoons of salt per gallon for about 15 minutes. after put them back in thier regular tank. as you see the ich diminishing, slowly do water changes, so you get rid of the salinity.
