Is there a way to "decontaminate" Ich-exposed plants?

[dw1305]

Hi all,
You can use eSHA Exit with plants in the tank.

cheers Darrel

[pleconut]

Can't get hold of it but it's on order looks like ABNs won't survive now.

[bekateen]

Hi Teresa,

How are your BNs today?

Eric

[pleconut]

Two females in a very bad way in one hospital tank, that I actually should have known better and QTd longer, but they were fine when they went in
It was definitely the tetras. And original pair with no whitespot showing as spots as yet, and also the panaqolus albomaculatus that havent got white spots, but they are not eating in yet another tank. Moved them from the whitespot riddled tank in order to save them. According to what TTA said above it might help so I'm going on this theory here. The two females with the cysts they are completely covered, so I guessed when those cysts burst they are all at risk of succumbing to it. Obviously it's a completely rubbish situation. On top feel like a complete and utter wombat. So in effect now I'm trying to save the ones from the ones which are badly affected. Hopefully I can save them all. Ialso now have a third new adult misidentified mustard spot in QT. I had success in bringing the first two round look like they need to go on a diet now. Hopefully the whitespot will be beaten. Then obviously I need to decontaminate original tank.

[Neo]

Following this post due to an outbreak in my L199/Discus tank thanks to the misses adding some "guppies" she felt sorry for

[bekateen]

Following this post due to an outbreak in my L199/Discus tank thanks to the misses adding some "guppies" she felt sorry for

Aw, dude. You did not just throw your wife "under the bus"... Oh, wait, you DID! You better pray she doesn't see this, or ich won't be the only outbreak you have on your discus!

[Neo]

i'm thinking its clear now but will see in a day or so, and no not under a bus "yet"

[pleconut]

Lost one.

[bekateen]

Sorry, Teresa. Hopefully no more.

Eric

[pleconut]

One of the very badly affected ones. In the same tank the spots are clearing up on the other one but she's not looking well, I think this is aside from the whitespot. In the other tank still no outward symptoms of whitespot on my original pair and 2 mustard spots. Put it this way think I have learned a hard lesson re QT. The new third mustard spot, will be QTd properly.

[Embee]

I am sorry to read about all this, but it leads me to a question regarding where you obtain your new fish?

I rarely buy in shops, almost anything I obtain is from private breeders. If I get anything from a shop I always observe all the tanks, looking for dead fish, and inquire whether they QT their fish before selling them. I've handed some excess guppies and such to a local store, and they didn't QT them, which immediately put them in my black book.

Best of luck with the rest Theresa.

[pleconut]

Thanks I've been told, although I've always thought it a very reputable chain, as I very rarely have problems that where I purchased the tetras has all the young fish they stock on a system with intense and on a large scale UV filters. Therefore the fish don't build any immunity whatsoever. So I bought the tetras QTd them alone. The 2 recently purchased ABNs were kept separate to the tetras and other fish to allow them to recuperate from shipping but seemed fine. Still a blunder on my part though. Then in the main tank with no immunity the tetras picked up whitespot with devastating results. Apart from five plecos, one of which is very sick the tank's been wiped out. All the tetras died and plants I eremoved have been destroyed. Still trying to figure out how to decontaminate the old tank