Finally have ich in my tank

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duanes said:
Ironic
When I first started keeping fish in the late 1950s, one way to treat ick, was to throw a few "real" copper pennies in the tank, and it worked, until they stopped adding real copper to pennies..

Here in Panama, I will often collect a fish, that has an ick cyst or 2 , and the water in certain slow flowing areas will have temps in the mid to upper 80sF.
So it may matter the origin of certain ick infections on how they are treated. A michigan strain might easily be thwarted with a high temp, whereas a Panamanian strain might laugh raised temps off.

There are also strains from the African rift lakes, immune to a normal osmotic treatment, so if a wild caught rift lake African may require a higher dose of salinity or even a med like Malachite.
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OMG I learned that penny thing from my aunt who kept tanks! One of my first tanks and I got too excited buying fish from different stores (guppies, mollies, platies and snails) and ended up with salted fish, lol...

So I had lotsa pennies and dumped a couple hundred in the tank. All pennies before 1982 are copper, the rest are zinc plated with a thin layer of copper. Left them in for about a month...looked real funky (tacky, heh) but did the trick! I had so many pennies in there even the newer ones helped. Fish were fine afterwards. It was hard keeping the bottom clean though. When I took them out, YUCK.

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Ich is very easy to treat. All it needs is a little understanding of its life cycle and choosing the right method which won't stress your fish and you're good to go.

But I will also add it is one of those pesky ailments which does require your undivided attention. You really need to be observing.

The fact that you are administering a treatment and then going to Korea would leave me paranoid as hell.

It couldn't have hit you at a worse time. I wish you luck.
 
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esoxlucius said:
Ich is very easy to treat. All it needs is a little understanding of its life cycle and choosing the right method which won't stress your fish and you're good to go.

But I will also add it is one of those pesky ailments which does require your undivided attention. You really need to be observing.

The fact that you are administering a treatment and then going to Korea would leave me paranoid as hell.

It couldn't have hit you at a worse time. I wish you luck.
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Yeah, I have treated ich before. Relatively simple procedure but I could keep watch. Now I can’t, and that’s the issue.
however today I woke up with many of white spots on the fish disappeared. They are probably at the free swimming stage? I will do another water change and add the dosage of salt required again. As mentioned I do not have a heater to raise the temp so I’m hoping just salt would work okay.
Here is my plan of action: before I leave for Korea. The day before I leave, I will do one last waterchange and salt dosage. I do have a helper at home. I will ask her to help Send me a picture of the tank everyday. If things do turn south, I will add in as suggested, coppersafe into the tank until I’m back home. Truly the worst timing ever
 
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jjohnwm said:
"If you're into chemicals, there is or was a commercial treatment called NoxIch or something like that, which I believe was a mixture of Methylene Blue and Formalin (don't quote me on that). It worked well, but was tough on inverts, some plants, your silicone seams (turned blue), and generally unpleasant to use. Ich is so easily cured with salt, heat or a combination of the two that I don't see the point of other more extreme treatments."

Here is a flashback for you! Nox-Ich is still available in some areas. Label still looks like it did back in the 1970s. Malachite green is the ich-killer ingredient. I remember it being very effective, but did stain clear silicone seams permanently.
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Caveden said:
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 kno4te how much salt per gallons?

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

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I would just raise it to 87-88f for two-three weeks. That’s how I’ve treated ich and it’s always worked like a charm without any side effects.
 
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