Still have ich present, flashing on a couple of cichlids & 1 white spot just fell off on 1 of them, temp still at 91.5f & salt is at no less than 3 tspn per gallon since 2 weeks ago, 1 more cichlid died a couple of days ago, 5 losses total since started with salt & heat treatment
1 month salt/heat, ich won't die
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Would do some water changes and try some Paraguard or api ich cure. Try meds as heat and salt aren’t working.
Hello; If the worst case happens and all the fish die you can save yourself future grief by deep cleaning you set up. You at the very least have a tough strain of ich (assuming it actually is ich).
Whatever the disease/parasite is the best approach may be to disinfect everything. A Clorox solution can do this. Soak everything used in or around the tank. Of course it follows that you will be starting over with the "cycle" when you set it up again.
Whatever the disease/parasite is the best approach may be to disinfect everything. A Clorox solution can do this. Soak everything used in or around the tank. Of course it follows that you will be starting over with the "cycle" when you set it up again.
I've kept doing water changes twice a week but discontinued doing thorough gravel vacs twice a week just for experimenting, ich has stayed showing same mild symptoms steady with random fish, only saw a difference when initially spiked temp to 91.5f for 2 weeks no salt abt 2 months ago after new tank & fish setup, I think I must have a brackish water ich strain all though maybe somewhat being kept mild from unnatural water temp? Anyways I'll try meds, will try to figure out wich is the better of the suggested so I don't kill anymore fish or bb.
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Hello; Good question. This is a guess. The relationship with parasites and hosts is long term dynamic. A host evolves a way to resist then the parasite evolves a response. The more successful parasites do not kill a host.
It seems that many try the "sneak up" approach to dosing salt for an ich outbreak. These lower than immediately fatal doses of salt solution may allow the parasite to become resistant to the salt by survival of the fittest of a few individual parasite larvae. Not saying you did this with your single outbreak. May be that the ich was exposed to non -lethal salt concentrations before. Just a guess.
Very likely, I bought most of my fish from petsmart/petco & have asked at both what they use for the tanks that show ich white spots (presumably) & been told by both they use salt but didn't ask how much, also I applied the salt in increments until at least 3 over span of abt 1 1/2 months
Is it the same as lymphocystis, I'm sure this isn't what my fish have but interesting though
