need help with medication

mk1102 · Post by **mk1102** » 21 Jan 2006, 23:23

the tank readings if you need them are
PH 7.5
gh 180
kh 140ish
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 10
temp 74
tank size is 20 gallons and is massively overfiltered

tank inhabitants is 5 cories, 3 small apple snails, and 2 goldfish and a dojo

the tank now has a bad ich problem I can not treat with F/MG combo because one of the goldfish does not take the treatment well at all situation. I know salt at .3% will kill off ich but not sure if the cories could take that much salt. I know the snails can not and they will be put into a very small tank while treatment is going on. Looking into finding a treatment for them on another board. I do not know what kind of cories they are I only know what I was told by evil pet shop ninnies that are never correct anyways. Any help will be greatly appricated I am at a lost of what to do.

drpleco · Post by **drpleco** » 22 Jan 2006, 02:29

I've used coppersafe on goldfish and cories successfully in the past. I did notice some barbel erosion on one cory, however. I'm not sure if this was due to the coppersafe, but it happened at the same time. Salt and cories is a bad combo.

Coppersafe takes much longer than salt or f/MG, but was 100% effective. The other option would be to seperate the fish and treat the goldfish with salt and the rest with copper or F/MG.

mk1102 · Post by **mk1102** » 22 Jan 2006, 02:37

So F/MG is safe for cories if I take the goldies out. Anyone know anything about a dojo? I have no idea what board to even look for answers on him. The cories are the most important thing right now. There are actually 3 kinds. I was sold them as 2 peppered and an albino at the local pethop. And 2 pandas that I ordered online that I do not want to lose, mainly because finding them locally is not easy or anything like them. they may not even be true pandas.