Re: [GSAS-Member] Virulent new ich strains / Super Ich

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

Do you use salt in your tanks? Salt is great natural
remidy for many things......

When I have had ich in the pst, I always use quick
cure...It's cured it in a few days......and of course
salt. But I think also catching when you first see it
is the key.

Trish
--- Darcey Harding <darceyh@drizzle.com> wrote:

> My tank has a case of ich that The Fish Store is now
> calling "Super Ich." They
> say it came out of South America about six months
> ago, and infected a Florida
> fish farm before spreading pretty widely throughout
> the industry.  They said
> they had to call in a fish pathologist to get rid of
> it themselves, that they
> were at their wits end for about a month, though
> they say they have it under
> control now.
> 
> >From what I've observed, this strain is especially
> virulent, and the white dots
> the fish get are a little bit larger and more
> widespread than normal.  Two weeks
> of rid-ich didn't touch it. It still looks like
> untreated ich. Three days of
> quinine seemed to knock it down a little bit.  I've
> now moved on to rid-ich in
> combination with copper sulfate and more quinine,
> after losing two big clown
> loaches and a beautiful, beautiful big old bosemani
> rainbow--the king of my
> tank.
> 
> I have raised the temperature, I've done three water
> changes, I've run a diatom
> filter, I've constantly dosed with rid-ich, and have
> now run a course of quinine
> and copper safe.  I've got about 2/3rds of fish
> looking OK and 1/3 still looking
> pretty unhappy.  I simply cannot think of anything
> else other than more of the
> same. The Fish store advises the trio treatment for
> at least 21 days, that it
> takes that long to run its course.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this? Suggestions?
> 
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