Marathon battle with flashing

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Just an update. Finishing up a 4 week treatment of ich that was spotted on 2 clown loaches. Flashing appears to be reduced but I did notice a clown loach and frontosa flash after a 40% water change today. That’s all I’ve noticed today though so I hesitantly want to say there’s been an improvement but also feel like I cannot continue treatment for much longer?

Again, my fear is that ich was either a secondary infection as to what was causing the flashing or B stoppage by the treatment too early without fully seeing a 100% elimination of the flashing could result in a re infestation. How long can treatment be continued? A month seems like a long time. Although, I should also note that it took quite a while to get up to the 3ppm salinity level and 85f+ temperature in the tank.
Thanks
 
Water sample from tank shows 0ppm Ammonia. So Prime water conditioner is doing its job and thus would explain the heavier flashing post water changes. However, still doesn’t solve the ongoing flashing that occurs in between water changes if it’s 0ppm. I’ve been instructed that if I decide to finally throw in the towel and sell off all fish to run 1 part bleach to 10 parts water to kill off all living organisms in the tank/filtration system to avoid transferring the issue to any future tanks.
IMG_2682.jpeg
 
Last edited:
MonsterFishKeepers.com