I am worried fish may be infected with Ick. I might be wrong, and I really home I am, but I was looking at them today when i had some friends over. and I noticed White spots on their heads, and some on the bigger ones f ins.

It really made me uneasy. And I want to know what I should do if it is Ick, or something else, and what I should watch for in the next few days?

I don't have a water test kit as of now.

not knowing water parameters, a big change is a must,
better safe than sorry. a picture would also help to
evaluate further.

like paul has mentioned a pic is needed to make a conclusive call on ick.
a testing kit is a must when keeping oscars.
and if you dont have a kit and you suspect there might be something wrong in your tank the first thing you should do is a large water change.

if your problem IS ick........raise the temp to 86 degrees old money and add one tablespoon of pure salt per 5 gals ....this will cure it

I would add: If indeed it is ick, a careful wall cleaning, thorough substrate vacuum, and just then as huge water change as possible. The cyst visible in fish is not treatable. Ick is a protozoo organsim (spelling?) that goes through three stages, the one visible, attached to the fish is the cyst stage; in a few days the cyst will disappear as it releases "off-spring" that will fall to the bottom of the tank (or driftwood, plants, whatever they "land" on), then it will enter a free-swimming phase where it will look for a host fish to attach.

In these two stages (laying at bottom, free-swimming) it is vulnerable. Higher temp, increased dissolved oxygen bio-availability, salt in the water column makes it unlikely for ick to survive.

Also keeping stressors down will help your fish.

If your fish get severely infected they might die. Ick is a vicious killer.

Hope this helps

Pepe
Santo Domingo

When you turn the temp up make sure to add an aerator as the oxygen is more dissolved in warmer water

I have done the raise the temp and salt treatment after seven days it cleared it right up. X2 on adding more air to the tank as higher the temp is raised the less air thats available in the water. The only thing I may add is to disove the salt in a bucket of tank water prior to adding it to the tank and also add the salt over several hours versus just adding all at once. Good luck.

all of the above inputs will help if it is indeed an ICK.
if it is not, it will not harm your oscar anyway, you are
still covered.

please keep us posted

Well it is indeed Ick. I went to my pet store, told them what was going on, and I showed a picture of it on my phone. He told me everything that was mentioned here. And Also gave me some Aquari-Sol. It is for, and i quote "Fresh water cure & preventative for Ick, closed fines, body fungus, velvet and other parasite infestations"

okey then... good luck... any update will be appreciated

x2........

Don't waste your time with the meds mate... heat alone is plenty to kill the ick... and salt will help too.

i mean, you can if you want but it really won't help that much