How often should I use Ick Guard?
every 24 hours
Use Tetra Easy Strips to monitor pH and alkalinity levels. Use half strength for scaleless or sensitive fish. If ick persists, treat every 24 hours until it clears.
How do you use Ich medicine?
Use at the first sign of “Ich” (white spots). Remove activated carbon from filter and continue aeration. Add 1 teaspoonful (5 ml) per U.S. gallons (19 L) of aquarium water. Repeat dose after 48 hours.
Can Ick Guard kill fish?
This ick medication killed all of my fish overnight, including betta, guppies and octos. I even used half the dose to be on the safe side. I found out when only betta had 3 spots and slowly scratching his body time to time here and there, that’s when I noticed. If you wanna kill your fish, use this otherwise stay away!
How long do you treat for ick?
Thankfully, treatment is usually effective, but you need to be prepared for a few days to over a week of treating the affected fish and water. and you will have to treat the water, as Ich has three distinct forms.
Does Ick Guard turns water blue?
This is not unusual and will fade. You should be doing a small ( 10%) water change daily prior to each dose. Once the fish are well, do a 20 – 25% water change and put fresh carbon in the filter. This will remove the blue color from the water.
How quickly does ich spread?
Parasites can reproduce rapidly, and one mature ich trophont can produce several hundreds to thousands of infective theronts in less than 24 hours at a water temperature of 22° to 25ºC (72º to 77ºF).
When can I add new fish after ich?
You’ll need to treat the fish in Coppersafe at 2.0ppm for 30 days or the ich will never go away. After 30 days you can remove the fish to another QT tank or use carbon to remove the copper. Your display tank will need to remain fishless for 76 days.
Does Tetra Ick Guard stain?
Answer: It will only change the color of the water for a few days, after that yhe color will go away. It will not stain your acrylic tank. I have one too.
What is Ick Guard used for?
Tetra ® Ick Guard ® is a soothing conditioner that quickly clears ick (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis), or white spot, on freshwater fish. Ick is usually the result of sudden changes in the aquarium water temperature or stress. Left untreated, ick spreads rapidly and is usually fatal.
Is Tetra’s lifeguard the best antibiotic for You?
You should consider Tetra’s Lifeguard product to be one of the best ‘antibacterial’ medicines out there right now. It’s not an antibiotic which IMMEDIATELY puts it ahead of all the rest because it doesn’t need to be absorbed and it doesn’t work like an antibiotic.
What is lifeguard made out of?
Tetra’s Lifeguard product is pretty much “alone” on the market with: 1-CHLORO-2,2,5,5-TETRAMETHYL-4-IMIDAZOLIDINONE It’s a “halamine disinfectant” and it’s been created with several molecules including Chlorine, Fluorine, and Bromine. The Lifeguard product is VERY close to Chloramine-T
