ich on Colomesus Asellus
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
ich on Colomesus Asellus
Looking for advice on what looks like ich on Colomesus Asellus, I have two in a 20 gallon tank with a few guppy's, and lots of Anubis and micro sword, I add a few snails every other day for them to eat along with tubeflex worms or shrimp to very diet, eating fine, no loose of appetite. Tank has been set up for 11 months and do a 15-20 percent water change every week. Looking for what I can use to treat them with, I have never had ich on Puffers.
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Re: ich on Colomesus Asellus
There's a nice article in the Library: library/hospital/fwich/ Don't use medications! They're unsafe for puffers.
I would do bigger water changes on that tank... In a fully-stocked puffer tank, which yours is (and maybe a tad overstocked), you should be doing at least 50% water changes. What are your nitrate levels?
I would do bigger water changes on that tank... In a fully-stocked puffer tank, which yours is (and maybe a tad overstocked), you should be doing at least 50% water changes. What are your nitrate levels?
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Re: ich on Colomesus Asellus
Do the salt and heat treatment in the article mentioned above. Worked for my SAP with ich.
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Re: ich on Colomesus Asellus
I respect others comment about using salt. But I also found eSHa EXIT to be safe for colomesus asellus. Worked very well when i've used it on my own 4 SAPS with ich.
I tried the salt and heat treatment for about a week, but, didn't seem to be having much of an effect. I fact what stated as mild case on one puffer changed to two then three and then i reached for meds.
It was suggested from one of the articles on the pufferform :
The Nice Puffer: Colomesus asellus, the South American Puffer
library/puffers-in-focus/sap/
As an aside, Esha exit is almost certainly malachite green a very broadly used medication,in days gone by it was used on fish farm but discovered to be very bad for humans to ingest.
I tried the salt and heat treatment for about a week, but, didn't seem to be having much of an effect. I fact what stated as mild case on one puffer changed to two then three and then i reached for meds.
It was suggested from one of the articles on the pufferform :
The Nice Puffer: Colomesus asellus, the South American Puffer
library/puffers-in-focus/sap/
As an aside, Esha exit is almost certainly malachite green a very broadly used medication,in days gone by it was used on fish farm but discovered to be very bad for humans to ingest.
Re: ich on Colomesus Asellus
Thank you to all that sent suggestions and help with my ich issue, after trying heat, salt and all the other ideas I found a product that worked from Kordon there line of AquaHerbals has a product called Ich- Attack it worked great in three days it was all gone. Never a loss of appetite, color or behavior issues, it didn't bother the snails in the tank either.