My fish have ick, and they also have popeye, I did a water change last night, and they perked up.
(im already treating the ick)
(im already treating the ick)
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they arent eating due to ichPopeye is pretty difficult and can cause permanent damage in my experience, I’d try to continue to knock that ich out. I’m my experience, Popeye is best treated with maintaining super clean water so I’d say keep up on water changes and make sure you feed them a lot because they might start to go blind for a while that’s what happened to one of my anthias and it was well fed before so it was able to get better. Good luck, and you can go to the humble.fish forum they give the best advice any advice I need I get from them. Good luck
the ich is almost cured, as they are starting to move more and I see less spots, the popeye is getting better.I’d be surprised if it’s ich if they aren’t eating, usually fish still have at least a small appetite with ich. Can you post pictures, I’m worried it could be velvet. What are you feeding? You might want to try adding garlic to their food, or maybe try some live foods like live brine might be successful. I’ve never been successful with live blackworms but I hear amazing things, those might be worth a shot, mixing their food with oyester feast has done the trick for me before. Id try a variety of different foods, getting them to eat is the most important thing. Also, how are you treating for ich/ what medication and or method are you using?
My fish have ick, and they also have popeye, I did a water change last night, and they perked up.
(im already treating the ick)
Maybe I should try feeding them the bloodworms I have for my freshwater tank?
I am currently busy, will get pictures around 4 o clock.Yes - you should try different foods, but I think that you need to find the root cause of why they aren't feeding. Pictures, or better yet, a short video would help.
Jay
yesterdayFWIW most of my salt fish didn’t care for bloodworms except my gramma and goby. Still worth a shot considering I haven’t otherwise heard of a fish that doesn’t love them.
How long ago did the ich disappear? It can come in waves.
I wouldn’t necessarily say you are out of the woods yet then. Part of the ich life cycle is dropping off the fish to reinfect. Technically you can’t be 100% sure for 76 days, though after 2 weeks you are in a somewhat safer zone imo.yesterday
Just clowns being clowns. I wouldn’t be too worried about that.They just hang out in that area most of the time, only coming out sometimes