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Thanks for all the advice and useful responses, today the 2 most infected clowns are showing fewer spots, it seems i'm timing good the treatment with the free swimming stage of the ich, hopefully it'll keep working. I have a Marineland heater that won't go past 86 degrees, for safety reasons i suppo...

Yeah, i'm using bacteria supplement between water changes, i have two extra cycled bio wheels in another tank just in case the bacteria colony on the medicated tank suffers the effects of such a long period of time exposed to formalin, I'm really trying to do my best. Now that you mention "lights of...

UV, That's a very interesting suggestion, thanks,i will consider that. I vacuum the gravel throughly every day, after feedings, my gravel must be the cleanest around; i'm literally sacrificing my social life for my fish, just to make sure i'm home to treat them every day at the same hour, that's why...

Yes, 4 weeks not a single grain of carbon, i can't wait to kill this pest to put it back in my filter.

Thanks for replying, as i said, i started dosing every 24 hours, and the loaches were pretty distressed, but now they tolerate the medication better so i'm doing it every 12 with water changes to reduce toxicity; and i still have recurrences. I can't think of a better medication, since Rid-Ich is a ...

I have a group of 5 clown loaches for almost 2 years now, i encountered ich for the first time back then, i treated the fish for four days and ich dissapeared, everything was fine until i made the huge mistake of getting my loaches a few snails from the LFS, as a treat since i never gave them snails...