New Pearl Scale Options

[PERRY]

Hello all I just purchased a new Calico Pearl Scale. I have been waiting like a month for the shops around here to get them (very hard to get them in during winter down here). The only bad thing is he was in a quarinteen watch tank, so I believe he has ich and mabey some internal bacterial infections but he is eating and swimming just fine. SO Im treating him with Ampicillin by gel-tek its given to him like food and the fish eats it so it goes directly into his system hopefully it will flush him out, I will be doing 3 50% water changes a week to his quarinteen tank. I will post pics tonight once im off work. I also want to know if this medication will kill ick because its doesn't say it treats ick on the label any help or advice is welcome thank you all. ~JP

[goldrush]

Dear Perry

May I know how/why you suspect the fish is stricken with internal bacterial?

Ampicillin is a broad based antibiotic which will never clear ick/ich which is parasitic in origin.Clear your ich with methylene blue,formalin/malachite green or any anti parasitic proprietary products of choice in your country.