uhoh.

looks like ich might be coming back...

i bought a few more fish and it seems as if one of them has a few spots

im wondering if i should just treat the whole tank because i dont have a quarantine or anything like that

Since the fish have already been exposed, treating the entire aquarium may be a good idea. Be sure to remove any charcoal filters and follow directions to the letter.

If you decide to set up a hospital tank some time in the future, ten gallon aquariums are about ten dollars at the big stores. I usually have a sponge filter operating in an established aquarium; the good cooties colonise the sponge and make setting up a new tank easy.

Where do you buy fish that you get ich so easily. I have never had it.

well..the fish ive had in there for a few weeks, the tetras, and the shark, were from petco.

i went to a family owned-looking fish store by me, southshore tropicals

i traded my shark for a catfish, and my girlfriend wanted me to buy this pink, bigger tetra im not sure of the species.

as of now, the old look spot free, and the catfish and the pink fish have some spots on them

also, when i first had an ich outbreak..it was a few days after i purchased some iridescent sharks from this same petstore.
(i know that the tank is too small for em you dont have to say it)

You may have bought sick fish, or moving them could have made them sick. South Shore Tropicals makes me think of Chicago. I lived in South Bend, and the South Shore commuter train, then called an interurban, ran close to the house.

Fish that have already been exposed to whitespot can develop partial immunity to it. This is one of the reasons that some fish in the tank can be infected whilst others have no sign of infection.

The fish in your tank may have already had a low level infection and when new fish were added, they had no immunity and became infected.

Chilling also reduces immunity from whitespot. So it is possible that the outbreak was caused by the fishes lower resistance due to being transported to its new home

alright i just started the treatment.

i bought these tablets that supposedly work in one treatment.

took the carbon filter out like it said, and dropped 1 tablet in like it said.

the tank looks pretty cool right now acctually, the dissolving medicine is blue and the tank has a nice look to it right now .

hopefully that will do the trick.

the catfish was pushing it around the bottom of the tank

should be fine. I find that even though it might say to redose after a few days if you can still see the infection, that if you leave if a few more days then do a water change it should clear ok. The least medication the better. Quarantining new fish for a few weeks is the best way to go. Hope your fish are feeling better soon!

There's nothing quite like blue water to make a fish feel good, but medication should be considered a last resort rather than a first.

the spots are still there this morning.

should i try another tablet after a 25% water change like it says or maybe wait another day?

i dont want my tank wiped out again

would be best if you did the water change but dont put the meds in, you could wait a few more days. they will probably slowly disapear over a few days.

Follow Liam's advice and give the stuff a few days to work. As I've said before, over crowding is putting the aquarium environment at risk and making it more difficult to manage. More aquariums are a great way to solve that problem.

well i went ahead and did another treatment only because i was waiting for an answer

nothing has changed since starting it up, however it seems the catfish has cleared up a bit?

the pink tetra still has it bad, and the little neon tetras all seem to have it pretty bad also.

i did a 25% water change just now, no meds.

Keep us posted.

well...just got in and i looked at my tank and my catfish was insanely lethargic looking...like verge of death floating with the current lethargic.

wasnt sure what i should do so i dropped half a ich tablet in and now he's moving around... but seems very confused

rip catfish

At the risk of being repetitious, a properly balanced biological load makes for a healthy aquarium, and medication should be a last resort.

the pink tetra could be a cave tetras if it has no eyes

piranhas are realated to tetras weird uh?

Sounds like your catfish may have been poisoned by the tablet form meds. You said the cat fish was pushing the med around, it probably started nibbling at it which is their nature. This med is suppoesd to dissolve into the water not be eaten straight by the fish. But you cant tell a catfish or a pleco not to nibble when thats how they eat algae wafers
I had few tetra that looked like patch work of white spots when they had ich, could hardly see their natural colours. But a few days after I medicated with liquid type med the ich spots reduced.
By the second recomended med dose the ich spots were gone. It took about 6days for all the ich to leave on each affected fish depending on when they developed it.
Try to think of it as when a child has chickenbox, the recovery is a process rather than instant fix