fish have ick, and tank has clown loaches in it. help.

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my oscar tank has developed ick, i am guessing from my newest member the knife, who is covered in it this morning, even after he had been by himself for over a week.

But my problem is my clown loaches, they have a few spots on them. I know you can't treat them with regular medicine because of them being scaleless.

I've raised my temp up, but it doesn't seem to want to go over 80, and I know everyone says about 84? And I added aquarium salt.

If I have to resort to medicines, what would be best with the loaches?

Thanks in advance
 
Raising the temp and salt is the healthiest and safest way to go. How many watts is your heater and in what size tank?
 
It's a 55 grow out for them and the wattage I believe is 200 watts. I've had it higher than 80 before, but I believe because it's getting a lot chillier here at night, so it gets cooler at night, and then pretty warm during the day.
 
Go out and buy another heater. Get the temp. up to at least 86*. 88* would be better. Treatment May take as long as 3 weeks at elevated temp. Don't quit after spots have disappeared as the parasite is in a different stage.


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id purchase a nice 300 watt for sure. winter is comming you can use the heater y have now as a backup. set to 86 degrees. how much salt did you add? you can add more than as directed for short periods of time. id also do a big waterchange. anything else in there with the loaches? you have acess to a hospital tank? you can do a high temp salt dip for the loaches in that thank and treat the main tank with meds.
 
I do have another tank I can put the loaches in, I did a big water changes two days ago, and noticed the ick today. i changed about 50% of the water then. Should I do another or do one in a few days. At the time of the water change, I always add a little bit of salt and I put in about 3 tablespoons, and will be going to the store to grab more in just a little bit and will add the rest of the amount for the tank size.

the high temp salt bath for the loaches, just the high temp and what amount of salt? It's a 15gallon I have I put my Africans in when they are holding but had the knife in when I first got him to try and avoid something like this, which ended up failing. ha. I have just been leaving the africans in their tank.
 
For clown loaches, copper sulfate(copper safe) really works...of course, it will kill all the invertebrates and not so nice to your plants.
 
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