88F and 15 cups of salt.

[mshill90]

It just seems liked you are making ich harder to treat than it needs to be.

I have a 180, and it got ich when I added my mahseer. I kept the temp at 78, and added a cup and a half, and it was gone 2 days later.

Or I typically use quick cure, and again in 2-3 days its gone.

 

[MonsterMinis]

Watch your water quality... if the massive amounts of salt didn't bomb your Bacteria colony I'de be surprized.

I use salt as a last ditch in treating Ick, or any meds for that matter. as said Ick has 3 stages... in it's free-floating stage is when it's suseptible to meds as well as free-floating. I simply bump the temp over 85 ( this temp is a max generally for Ick's toleration of heat) and do 50% WC daily until the tank's clean. Takes anywhere from 3-7 days generally. And keep a close watch on the tank 30 days after for a possible re-break of it.

 

[lipadj46]

"morons" i like what you did there, the is no proof of a problem with table salt. Pretty much most ick treatments use 2 to 3 teaspoons per gallon over time.

Your original post said you used 15 cups of morons salt. That is the only reason I opened up this thread. 1 or 2 cups of morons salts, sure, but 15 that is alot of morons. Funny stuff.

I do hope you clear up your ick, I've had luck raising temps and water changes.

 

[nfored]

As of today I can't see any ick on the fish, So hopefully in about 4 more days I will do some water changes.

I tried just raising the temp and the ick spreed to other fish. With in 2 days of treatment the originally infected where clear, and at the end of the 3rd day all fish look good.

What is the deal I see people use 1 - 3 teaspoon per gallon, and many places say to add that over 36 hours. I would have rather not used salt, but this is just the method I first learned when i joined this site and read the sticky; so I have always done it like this.

Hope fully I never have to do this again but if I do I will try less salt. I will check my params here in a minute, but the fish are all pretty lively and in good spirit, except the rainbow shark and he doesn't seem to like the salt as much.

 

[NCStateFisher]

glad to see your ick cleared up, so did mine, I remember I got it adding a new fish the same day you got your balas hah. just watch your water quality because I over-salted as well and It sent my tank in to a mini cycle