Trista
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Hi, I recently received these glowlight danios from a highly recommended online retailer. I noticed once they colored up, the little white spots on them and reached out to the retailer making them aware. Thinking this is Ich, they recommended treating with IchX. I've been treating with IchX at the recommended dosage for a week now and have noticed no changes in the spots. They are not spreading. Still same two fish with the same couple of spots. I read a bunch of sites that recommended increasing temp to above 80 to speed up life cycle, right now sitting at about 83 degrees. It's been several days since increasing temperature and still no change. I'm wondering if I need to keep trucking along with this treatment or try something different? I've never had sick fish before (been in hobby since 12/21). This is my first experience with Ich, if this is even what it is. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Water parameters: pH 6.4, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-10. Sorry for blurry photos, these fish are so fast, it's hard to get a decent pic.
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All those tiny babies! I counted around 50! 😊
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On 4/27/2022 at 12:30 PM, sumplkrum said:
Personally, I'd leave the fry where they are. You'd probably have to tear that tank apart to net them out, and the stress on them might kill them. Let nature take it's course.
You have the other tank with fry so those are your backups. And if the fish are spawning this readily, you'll have more batches in the future.
@sumplkrum Thanks for the advice, I was leaning toward leaving them as well. I have a ton of dwarf water lettuce in this tank I had planned on thinning out. I guess I'll leave it for now as it will give the fry extra coverage.
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It's confirmed! I have new babies in the new tank I moved all of the adults into so the other babies wouldn't get eaten! I don't know what to do...do I try and move the new fry into the 10gal with the other fry? Any advice is appreciated!
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So I moved the adult sparkling gouramis to the 20gal I had been preparing for them on Friday, it's now Monday and I have a male protecting a bubble nest! LOL. I guess we'll see if I notice more babies in the new tank!
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On 4/22/2022 at 3:15 PM, Patrick_G said:
Congrats, my attempt at keeping Sparkling Gourami didn't end well. They're such beautiful little fish, I hope your fry survive and thrive.
@Patrick_G What happened with your gouramis?! I got so excited when they started croaking a few months ago. I've even got video of the two males sparring. The only issue I've had so far is my LFS telling me I could keep them with a betta, I didn't know they're closely related and eventually had to move the betta. Then they accidentally scooped up a zebra danio when I was picking up my pygmy corys so the danio has been fighting them. That's why I wanted to move them to a bigger aquarium so I could get a couple more danios, hoping that would relieve his stress.
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I have a 10gal that I've had set up since December '21. I re-scaped it a couple months ago and have had 2-3 pygmy corys, 4 sparkling gouramis and a zebra danio in it with snails. I'm not sure what type of fry these are, I'm suspecting sparkling gouramis. I've been working on setting up a 20gal to move them into, it's cycled and now has snails and amano shrimp, the only reason I haven't moved the fish is because I couldn't finish the scape until my bog wood fully water logged. I think it's good now and a good thing because now I have to move these fish! I've caught the gouramis and the danio, the pygmy corys bury themselves in the sand and get so stressed, I think I'm ok leaving them (no clue). I've never had fry before and am so unprepared, LOL. I can hatch BBS, I usually feed these to my other fish anyways. Any advice would be appreciated!
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Glowlight Danios not responding to IchX treatment
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@Colu I think 8 days was the trick, the spots are visibly smaller today than they have been previously. They're now barely visible. I'm still going to treat with the recipe above just in case. My Seachem Focus and Garlic Guard just came in today, I've mixed it up and they are happily pecking away at it. Thank you!