Help on treating ich

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Sumfingwong

As of yesterday, I turned off my skimmer, and treating the tank with Herbtana




I dipped the krill and brine with Seachem garlic guard, every other fish except the puffers ate. Right now, it looks like its affecting the puffers the most.

Dipping is not going to do it. You need to soak dry food in garlic extract or Garlic Extreme (I do not know about garlic guard). You need to feed very often and only garlic soaked foods.
The idea is to get as much garlic in the fish as possible.
Don't know about Herbtana. What are the listed ingredients?

[Sumfingwong]

Originally Posted by naesco

Dipping is not going to do it. You need to soak dry food in garlic extract or Garlic Extreme (I do not know about garlic guard). You need to feed very often and only garlic soaked foods.
The idea is to get as much garlic in the fish as possible.
Don't know about Herbtana. What are the listed ingredients?

Sorry, I worded it wrong.. I soaked the food into Seachem Garlic Guard.

I do have some good news. The dogface who looked the worst yesterday looks a lot better, he ate some krill today. The only one not eating is the porcupine puffer. I am hoping he will come around tomorrow, he is active though, he keeps to the back left corner of the tank surfing the glass.

As for herbtana's ingredients, I will have to check later and get back to you.

I do have a question. the fox face looks like he has this white see through slimy thing hanging off of the dorsal fin. It also looks like it has a white dot on the slimy substance. After that, I saw some of this slimy see through stuff in the water column, so I took a net and scooped it out. What is this stuff? a by product of ich?

[Gripenfelter]

If you have Selcon I would soak the food in that too.

[Sumfingwong]

Originally Posted by Gripenfelter

If you have Selcon I would soak the food in that too.

I will be grabbing that today, I didnt leave the house over the weekend.

But im happy to report everybody is eating now. There are still some signs of ich on the porcupine, but he started eating last night (garlic soaked krill) Everybody else looks good. I am hoping to finish this 10 day treatment asap, because I really want to turn on the skimmer lol

I also did a 10 gallon water change last night.

[Sumfingwong]

double post. pls delete

[daniella3d]

Look at it with a microscope. could be marine velvet or brooklynella. This is looking less and less like ich.

Originally Posted by Sumfingwong

I do have a question. the fox face looks like he has this white see through slimy thing hanging off of the dorsal fin. It also looks like it has a white dot on the slimy substance. After that, I saw some of this slimy see through stuff in the water column, so I took a net and scooped it out. What is this stuff? a by product of ich?