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Hi there,
I have 65 gallon fresh water tank and around 30fishes. We use Canister filter ...3 week ago I bought (mistake) fishes from walmart...(one male and 2 females) guppies and 4 neon  ..many died ..but one female guppy and 2 neons are ok ....then 12days ago I again bought fishes from petsmart ....one male guppy died again but pair of dalmation mollies are ok ....so this is the past story...now the problem  .. few fishes have ich disease ...last week I use ich medicine for 4 days and changed 25% of water everyday ...but still some of them have white spots ..I noticed there tales( guppy, sword tail....)have white patches and broken fin from the end ( may be they have tale rot )...now 3 days ago I used binox ..by looking at them now they still have the same problem ...Ih dont know what to do next.  also how do I check, if I am using carbon in our filter too. ..plz help

Answer
Hi Sarwat,
  Generally it takes about 7 days to fully treat ich.  I would suggest you continue to treat for ich.

  You will know if you are using carbon if there is either a "carbon pad" or a container of some sort of loose carbon (it is very black) in the filter.

-- Ron
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