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Im fairly new to being the proud owner of these lovely Weather Loaches. I have 3 of them and they are my babies, so you can imagine my horror when i noticed that they have developed White Spot (ICH).
I have read through your post on what to do and how to treat it and have done all that but to no avail.
They don't seem stressed at all and are all eating fine but i just cant get rid of it!
Any other advice would be much appreciated.
I have already lost one of my weather loaches who jumped out the tank and i didnt notice until it was sadly to late and i was beside myself to say the least I would be totally gutted if i lost these fish, I have them now swimming into my hand and taking wafers from my fingers.
Oh i have treated them with Interpet Anti White spot which was recommended to me by Acorn pets, but im having no luck.

Thank You

How long has it been since you noticed the spots? It can take over a week for the spots to clear up and to be certain you have killed it off, as only one of the three phases is susceptible to medicine.

Your loaches may even get worse before they get better. Follow the instructions on the medicine you have (I'm not familiar with it), up the temp on the tank, and vacuum the substrate every day.

Hi Thank You for your reply, they have had it now for over two weeks. Ive vacuumed the sand nearly every day and raised the temp slowly.

if ya read the sticky post it mentions salt as the best cure and its what i'm gonna use when god forbid i encounter ICH, but make sure you follow the guide right and check the status of your other fish with salt first you dont wanna heal one but kill the rest m8. the thread is bang on and defo worth reading


Rave

Are you raising the temp to get rid of ich via the temp cure, or simply to increase the growth-rate of the parasite?

if you live in England try to get hold of WS3 full strength, it's made by King British, me and my mate have used this for years and it's never let us down yet.

mick

Ich follows a life cycle that can take longer than 2 weeks in cooler water, so you highly likely have Ich in all phases in the tank right now.
You need to keep the medicine in the water at all times. Whenever you do a water change dose the meds so the full dose is in there.

Add an ultraviolet sterilizer to the tank. This will kill the phase that swims in the water looking for a host. It may also deactivate any meds, though.

Keep up the water changes, emphasizing gravel vacs. You are removing the reproductive phase that has fallen to the floor of the tank.