All fish except Danios died of Ich?

[Vipex23]

Ok, my situation. My fish tank was fine a few days ago. It contained.. 3 danios, 4 clown loaches, 2 silver dollars, 2 gouramis. (The gouramis I've had for over 3 years) Against my wishes, my father bought 2 plecos. Over the course of the next couple of days all the fish come down with Ich and start dying. I think my father bought infected plecos and they infected and killed the others. As of today, they all died except the 3 danios who show no signs of infection or illness. What's up with that?

ph is 6.4 .. No ammonia, nitrites, nitrates=5

 

[jefftaylor]

How big is the tank???

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Danios are hardy, I have never in my life seen one with ich. Maybe they just aren't as susceptible to ich or they weren't as stressed out by the addition of the new fish?

 

[Vipex23]

55 gallons

 

[jefftaylor]

That has happened to me before i bought 2 bosemans rainbows, and the infected my whole tank and everthing died except my danios. They are still kicking (5 Zebra danios). SO i think you are right about the fish you dad got you because it happened to me as well. I was only wondering tank size for stoking issues but its seems to be fine to me. Sorry about your luck.

Im battling what i think is ick right now as well in my other tank.

 

[Vipex23]

Having 3 Danios in a 55g tank is no fun. Will the ich die out on its own after a few weeks if nothing is done and the Danios continue to seem fine?

 

[jefftaylor]

Im not sure on the dying out part but i think you should still treat the tank with some sort of ick med. You dont want to add fish in a few weeks and have them die right away because you did not want to spend 3 bucks on ick med.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

The ich will still be in the water... if you do the salt/heat method for 10 days, it should irradicate all the ich from the tank and you'll be good to go. Use the search on here to get the specifics on heat/salt if you want to use it.

 

[Dan Steveo]

sorry to interrupt but is ich/ick the same as whitespot?

 

[angelmom]

Ick is white spots yes, they look like grains of salt on the fishes body. I just had a round of it myself and it is not a fun thing to figure out.