Do i have super ich?
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I always use a glass of tank water and add the salt to that then stir it up so that it is completely dissolved before I add it to the tank.
when we had ich that came home with our baby tems we raised the temp to 90 degrees F, added a foam filter with a bubbler and added 1 tsp aquarium salt per gallon.
we waited for 2 weeks after we saw no more ich and then did 50% water changes every week for 3 weeks and dropped the temp 2 degrees per week till it was back down around 82 degrees F.
we waited for 2 weeks after we saw no more ich and then did 50% water changes every week for 3 weeks and dropped the temp 2 degrees per week till it was back down around 82 degrees F.
i just put the salt in diff. buckets and syphoned the water with a hose in the buckets. the jet stream of water mixed the salt up well. +
ICH rarely (if ever) kills a healthy fish. The treatment kills. This is what has happened to you.
First thing I would do is a large water change to get rid of all that crap you put in there.
DO NOT remove any of your bio-media or anything else from your filter!
Then I would raise the temp. to 87-88F and add a TBS (tablespoon) of salt for every 5 gal.
Maintain this temp. for at least 10 days after you see the ICH dissappear.
Continue doing your normal (weekly I hope) water changes and add back what ever salt you removed (if you take out 50 gal, add back 10 TBS of salt).
That should do it....
Good luck...
Burt
First thing I would do is a large water change to get rid of all that crap you put in there.
DO NOT remove any of your bio-media or anything else from your filter!
Then I would raise the temp. to 87-88F and add a TBS (tablespoon) of salt for every 5 gal.
Maintain this temp. for at least 10 days after you see the ICH dissappear.
Continue doing your normal (weekly I hope) water changes and add back what ever salt you removed (if you take out 50 gal, add back 10 TBS of salt).
That should do it....
Good luck...
Burt
Also, for those that don't like adding a lot of salt, then raising the temp to above 86 degrees F and adding lots of surface aggitation will also do the trick. I'm not a salt fan myself, and this is my normal routine. I make sure that the coolest period of my tank is 86-87 degrees. I leave it there for 2 weeks after the last spot disappears. Temps above 86 degrees will kill the ick, except for the super ick, which is then 92 degrees. Happened to me once 2 years ago. At 87-88 degrees, the ick just got worse and worse. And I've got rainbow sharks, several loaches, and I had 2 fire eels in the tank at the time, and as long as I had lots of surface aggitation, the fish handled it just fine. Just don't adjust the temp too fast. I adjust the tank temp over a 3 day period.
In total agreement with the posters who recomend ditching the "cures" and just turning up the temp/adding salt.
Adding an airstone or two couldn't hurt, just because of the high temps you need to cure the ick.
Adding an airstone or two couldn't hurt, just because of the high temps you need to cure the ick.
