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Hi, Nice of you to join us…welcome! I am not seeing any more ich and did not treat. I only ever saw a couple spots on each. I realize they could come back. But I am guessing my fish may have been stressed from lack of food. The store thought they were eating a small prepared food. I knew they weren’t, and scrambled to get cultures I could feed. With me they went several days without eating.They are much happier now and seem to be doing great!
I hope you can get yours well. One thing I have learned is they do not bother shrimp. they also like amphipods, which I added cultures to all three nanos today. I also got a daphnia culture, but am not seeing a whole lot of movement in it. I am hoping I can bring it back.This is an inert substrate. It is actually a very fine gravel. I was reading here and thought sand was recommended? My other small tanks have a type of sand, but it also does not affect PH. Thanks for the help with ID. There is very little if any color to the tail, perhaps a tinge of red on one. That does resemble them. They appear to have the fine blue at the edge, one more so than the other. I am curious if I even have a pair, although they are constant companions.
These stones have been tested, and do not affect PH. There is a test you can perform. The substrate is Tahitian Moon sand. I am lowering the PH using RO water. Once it is complete, I should have a PH of around 6.4 give or take a degree.
I got them from a local specialty shop. She is calling them “angel licorice gourami”, so no help there. I have 4 P. Nagyi coming next week! Not for this tank. Thanks for all of your help Helene. 🙂Yes, I am slowly adding leaves, but there is another issue. I had only old almond leaves. I have just received a new fresh batch of organic ones yesterday. It warns against adding too many on the package, and gives a specific amount. I have not added any of the fresh ones yet. I might have some alder cones, but again they are old. I was thinking of buying new ones also. I am not familiar enough to know what other leaves might be ok to use? I do have live oaks in my yard. I do also agree she looks to be clamping her tail. I am keeping the temp at 78F, I think that is 26 to you?
Only two pics came out really. This is the larger of the two fish, and the other one does not show as many spots.
[URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/waterfaller1/media/fish/001-3.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/waterfaller1/fish/001-3.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/waterfaller1/media/fish/007.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/waterfaller1/fish/007.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Yes, I have been keeping fish 20+ years. I am an old woman, don’t let the cute avatar fool you. :silly: These are however my first parosphromenus. I took some pics, uploading now. Let’s take a look. Maybe you can help with an ID on them as well?
In my experience ich can live in a tank, it could have come in with the shrimp as a hitchiker for example. It does not really want to kill the fish, it needs them. But if something is not making the fish happy, and it gets stressed, that’s when they begin to attack. They will often jump onto, then off a fish. There are also different stages to their life cycle, and I may need to leave that tank fishless for awhile. I purchased the gouramis, and the shop was keeping them mixed with other types of fish, and in tapwater. I have been slowly adding RO water to gradually reduce the PH.
Hello, yes I can start a new thread. They were flicking off things in the tank yesterday trying to get them off. It is not an infestation, and does not resemble the overall dusting of oodinium. I will be back and start a new thread in a bit. The reason I brought this thread up was after a search, the photo was there which looked exactly like what mine look like. Figuring I probably could not get such good close ups of mine. I also thought I read somewhere here that going back to previous threads was preferred over starting new ones? Thanks so much for the welcome and reply. My name is Carole.
[quote=”Jit” post=349]Hi there Dezz, I’ve found that malachite green doesn’t work well with wild paros and bettas (in my personal experience only). Instead, I found that the combination of nifurpirinol and coppersafe, both at lower doses than suggested, help to eradicate ich and velvet within hours.
Hope this experience helps.[/quote]Ok, I found the med, it sure is pricey! :blink: How much would you use in a 5 gal tank?
Hello, my first post and sadly I am in the same situation. I have only one pair of fish, but there are small shrimp in the tank. Each fish have just a couple spots. No other fish in the tank, and the spots were not visible yesterday.{I understand ich has several stages} What is the best recommendation? I can not find the medication mentioned earlier, the nifurpirinol. I am assuming I need to remove them to treat.Any help is appreciated.
