Finally have ich in my tank

[Caveden]

Well, it’s been many years but it finally hit me. It is my fault for feeding my fish feeders, my responsibility. Usually buy them from a reputable source. This time I bought from a different location… idiot me My black wolf and snakehead have been infected although my gar and bichirs don’t seem to be affected from their hard ganoid scales.
So the treatment: I’m adding salt into the aquarium currently. Is that enough, or do I add in methylene blue as well? kno4te how much salt per gallons?

read from previous threads duanes stated how many increase temperature but that may cause more issues of lower oxygen levels, so I won’t be doing that.

 

[Midwater]

Heat!

 

[Caveden]

Heat!

Sorry I edited my response above. Won’t be heating my tank for the above reason. Singapore is a tropical climate summer all year round so aquariums don’t sell heaters as well
I’m currently doing a waterchange, and will be adding the salt and methylene blue later.
The snakeheads find covered with the ich.

 

[Midwater]

Don't heat!

 

[Caveden]

So far I have done a waterchange and added 2 teaspoons of salt per gallon as instructed by other threads. I’ll wait for others to chime in whether I should add in methylene blue. I have to clear this disease up by Sunday: I’ll be leaving for holiday in Korea for 10 days and unable to care.

 

[duanes]

The most common problem I find with raising the temp, is secondary infections that arise in the lesions ich leaves behind on the fishes skin.
Most pathogenic bacteria thrive at higher temps (80'F to the mid 90s'F), this is why I don't raise temp.
Raising temp does increase the rate of the ich life cycle, making it easier, and taking less time to arrest, and "not raising temp" may take a longer regime of treatment, but the secondary bacterial infections heat often promotes are "to me" much more of a problem.

The fish above arrived from shipping, covered in ich.
A little over a week later using only 3 lbs of water softener salt per 100 gals as treatment, they looked like this, and no secondary infections

I don't use the value method of dosing (Tbsps, Tsps), because different salt grain sizes produce different salinities, and underusing is possible,
whereas 3 lbs of salt is 3 lbs of salt, and will produce the proper salinity to kill emerging ich every time, that magic salinity is 3 ppt (parts per thousand) or above.

 

[aroijuana]

What i do is use a salinity meter & do 1ppt of salt.. also i raise temp to 84. Never had a problem using this method. I would steer clear of methane, it's usually rough on the fish.

 

[Caveden]

The most common problem I find with raising the temp, is secondary infections that arise in the lesions ich leaves behind on the fishes skin.
Most pathogenic bacteria thrive at higher temps (80'F to the mid 90s'F), this is why I don't raise temp.
Raising temp does increase the rate of the ich life cycle, making it easier, and taking less time to arrest, and "not raising temp" may take a longer regime of treatment, but the secondary bacterial infections heat often promotes are "to me" much more of a problem.
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The fish above arrived from shipping, covered in ich.
A little over a week later using only 3 lbs of water softener salt per 100 gals as treatment, they looked like this, and no secondary infections
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I don't use the value method of dosing (Tbsps, Tsps), because different salt grain sizes produce different salinities, and underusing is possible,
whereas 3 lbs of salt is 3 lbs of salt, and will produce the proper salinity to kill emerging ich every time, that magic salinity is 3 ppt (parts per thousand) or above.

Yes. I used a weighing scale to measure 2.4kg of salt into my tank. Should I use ich X/ methylene blue into the tank? I need to clear of it as soon as possible. I only have 5 days before I’m flying off.

What i do is use a salinity meter & do 1ppt of salt.. also i raise temp to 84. Never had a problem using this method. I would steer clear of methane, it's usually rough on the fish.

should I use methylene blue/ ich X? Does it contain methane?

 

[neutrino]

I wouldn't expect meth blue to do much for ich. On the (very) rare occasions I've dealt with it, salt and temperature didn't do much for me, but Coppersafe was effective.

CIR920/FA006: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (White Spot) Infections in Fish (ufl.edu)

"In general, copper sulfate and formalin are both effective against Ich when applied at the correct dose in a repetitive manner as described above."

 

[jr71]

I've also had success with Coppersafe each time I had to deal with ich.