Ich, treatment documentation

After a power outage, and significant drop in temp, 1 line of tanks developed ich
1/26/15

because the line of 6 tanks totals at least 300 gallons just bringing temp back to normal was difficult so the first thing I did was start adding handfuls of salt to the most severely infected tank, with lake Barumbi mbo cichlids, trying to slowly bring salinity to at least 3ppt


day 2 , picked up 4 bottles of, and started adding Nox Ich in addition to salt

1/27/15

1/28/15 started another bottle of NI and added another 300 drops, and another couple handfuls

1/29/15, another dose of 300, handful of salt, a bit of improvement.

1/30/15 another dose of 300 drops, few more handfuls of salt, starting to look optomistic

beside the Sarotherodon in the pics, the tank includes 3 Synodontus cats, still hanging in there

and a pair of Stomatepia pindu
1/26/15

1/30/15

The salt is a 25lb bag of water softener salt, it is NaCl compacted into hard pellets.
I always keep a bag at the ready, (use the same stuff for hatching artemia) and will keep up the treatment for another 2 weeks or so, even though symptoms may seem to disappear.
I'm on the 4th bottle of Nox Ich, after tomorrow I will still treat, but probably every other day instead of daily.
Fish in other tanks of the same line were also infected, though not quite as severely.

Water softener salt is no different in composition than any other salt.

1/31/15 (today) color back, and almost all cysts gone.
I am not naive enough to believe there are not still dormant cysts in the substrate ready to go, so I will keep up the salinity for at least another week, or more to lyse them as they hatch out.

An update from today 2/2/15