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Ick keeps killing my fish2007-11-24 23:09:43

I have a 10 gallon freshwater tank. I got it like 8 months ago and have gome thru soo many fish. I don't want to put any more fish in there if they are just going to die. It's not fair to them. Just in the last month I had 2 fancy gold fish and one guppy who survived from a prev. "batch" of fish I brought home. They were all doing great, eating swimming doing what fish do, then they started to get a little ick. So I started treating the tank for ick but it didn't help. They died within days. Just a week ago I bought 5 of the medium size feeder gold fish. and now they are all dying. I have treated the tank over and over again for ick. But it seems like no matter what I do it comes back. Since all the fish are dead should I completly empty the tank and get new rocks and plants before buying more fish? I take good care of my fish but why won't they live?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Answers:

Ditto to VG and Cico

Just a few things I will add:

Don't empty out the whole tank, only do a partial waterchange of 50% right away, and put 10 tablespoons of aquariumsalt in there and turn the heat up to 90 degrees, that will kill any diseases still in your tank

Get yourself an ammonia test kit, and check it every day, and follow up with 25% partial waterchanges every day until your readings are at "0"

your tank is definately ready for fish after that time

When your ammonia is at "0", turn the temperature back down to 76-82 degrees, because you won't get any more goldfishes, because your tank is to small for it