Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] ich, but not ich

Great news!
Suzy
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From: Chris@Rott-n-kids.com Chris@Rott-n-kids.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] ich, but not ich

It sounds like he's turned the corner and is on the mend - such a relief
:-)

Christine
Scotland
UK

On 29/01/2013 20:41, Chris wrote:
>
> Hi. Well My Gourami started to go downhill fast; he was inactive and
> spending lots of time on the bottom.
>
> I decided the velvet treatment wasn't working so I isolated the fish
> in another tank (no meds) for a day, I then took a chance and switched
> meds again fin rot and fungus, as this was the only med left in my
> arsenal I hadn't tried.
>
> Two days later and the Gourami is flying around the tank and eating
> again, he is looking much better and the spots seem to have gone, the
> only thing left is he's feeler things still have a little bit of
> splitting.
>
> Anyway I am going to leave him on treatment for seven days and see if
> the splitting clears up.
> >From the outset I had excluded fungus as a possibility; all the
> articles I read described it as cotton wool like, I thought like a
> clump of cotton wool.
>
> When it started it looked more like single strands of cotton wool just
> protruding from the fish's body, and later like tiny white spots
> almost ich like it then progressed to longer looking single strands of
> very fine cotton, so I guess the early stages of fungus can be very
> deceptive.
>
> Anyway I am much more optimistic about the fish now, I know its early
> days but he looks like he's on the mend.
>
> Ray thanks again for taking the time to help me, much appreciated.
>
> Matt glad your fish are on the mend, I had a problem with ich a while
> back I treated it with malachite Green for three weeks with no effect.
> I then removed the meds and heat treated at 30c for three days worked
> a treat.
>
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