ICK pictures?

[bearz]

Can someone give me some links to pics of ICK on mollies and swordtail fish? I did a complete water changeover in my tank because I was having problems, and all the fish seemed to be quite happy, and then today I noticed a shiny silverish/white circle in front of the black molly's front fin. I suspect ICK, and think it may have been part of the problem all along, but want to make sure.

Second, I'll do the salt treatment if it is, and want to know, do I do the treatment every day for 2 weeks, and will it harm the one fry I have in the tank. Its only about 3/4 of an inch long...a guppy. I'm wondering if I should just take him out and put him in a separate tank by himself, but how will I know if he is carrying the ICK? I just put him in day before yesterday, as everything looked fine that the fish looked healthy now. I have 43 other fry in a separate tank, and I don't want to put this little guy back with them...we want them all healthy.

[BJP]

I don't have any ick pictures but livebearer tanks want be bothered by keeping a salt addition in equal to about a tablespoon per five gallons long term. Fry either. Just take time to predissolve it. I've raised thousands with salt present and with molly tanks I'll go way higher in salt addition and even switch to ocean salt mix.

Add the salt, when you do water changes, readd enough to replace the percentage you took out.

[Tommy Gun]

Here is a picture of a clown loach with Ich all over it: (I tried to zoom in the best I could so sorry if the picture is not really all that clear)

The picture is not mine, I got it from a yahoo image search for "freshwater Ich". I also realize that it is not a molly or swordtail, but since a lot of swords are orange and black, I figured the clown loach would look similar. In fact, this little white spots would look the same on any fish but would be much harder to pick out on a white fish of course.

[bearz]

HMMM...I'm not sure if that is what my Molly has. It just has 1 big white spot instead of all those little spots. Should I wait to see if more develops or just do the saltwater treatment?

[bearz]

Also, how often do I put that salt in? Daily? Weekly? Can I use regular table salt?

[BJP]

It's not going to hurt livebearing fish to put it in now. When you do water changes in the future, you just add back more for the amount you extracted. For instance if you take out 10 gallons of water during the water change, you add two level tablespoons back to the tank as you top it off with fresh water. For ick, plain old tablesalt is fine.