Hi, my name is GG - thank you for excepting me to this forum.

[vetteguy53081]

Most catfish are scaleless and do not respond well with methylene blue. For freshwater, start with raising temperature and adding aquarium salt, Not sea salt. If no success, ick cure by aquarium products should work. Do NOT use copper based treatment with catfish

 

[Salt & Peper]

Welcome! For the guppy and Molly's you can slowly make the water brackish one they prefer brackish water and 2 freshwater parasites can survive in brackish water. For the rest make a dip of saltwater and hydrogen peroxide dip fish for 1 min twice a day and add zoo General cure to the tank! That's how I would do it!

 

[Salt & Peper]

Welcome! For the guppy and Molly's you can slowly make the water brackish one they prefer brackish water and 2 freshwater parasites can survive in brackish water. For the rest make a dip of saltwater and hydrogen peroxide dip fish for 1 min twice a day and add API General cure to the tank! That's how I would do it

 

[Ruben's Reef]

!!! Welcome to R2R GG !!!

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

 

[mpatient]

Hi and welcome G.G. My favorite niece goes by G.G. as well! I know nothing of freshwater, but I am sure others. will chime in.

 

[lapin]

I have a tropical fish farm. i grow Guppy, molly, Swordtails and some unique cat fish.
from time to time we are facing some hard parasites we can't get read off, and i wanted to try and get some help with it.
the last one we are fighting with is a internal fungus called Ichthyosporidium.
does anybody know about an effective treatment?

thanks in advanced
GG

From my past fish breeding experience i know that this type of internal fungus was hard to treat. I do not know if modern treatments have been discovered.

The disease is caused by a Phycomycetes, Ichthyophonus (=Ichthyosporidium) hoferi
Like any disease, poor conditions do not help the problem.
It can be managed in a small aquarium setting with the medication of food and the destruction of any fish showing symptoms.
Phenoxetholor / Chloromycetin can help however i dont think its really treatable once its in your farm system.
Removal of all fish and sterilization is recommended. Infected fish can show no symptoms and spread it. Making it hard to selective remove diseased individuals before they can transmit to others.

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R.

 

[CasaReefer]

Welcome and Good Luck.....

 

[Daniel92481]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[MERKEY]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Nohatch]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[BeejReef]

Welcome

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

Welcome to the group, GG!

 

[LiveWire]

Welcome to the REEF!!

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Though this is a marine fish forum primarily, there are knowledgeable people here in the freshwater world as well. I hope some of them chime in soon!

 

[Jeff Jarry reef]

Welcome to R2R !!!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Welcome!!!