Help with Ich PLEASE!
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I would have to agree with
DarkOne
on the heat treatment. I had a bad outbreak like this also. I ended up having to use the heat treatment plus salt to get rid of it. The amount and what kind of salt is debatable, but it works. There is a sticky in this section of the forum describing their version.Update: I lost a blue acara today and the ich is worse than it’s ever been. Honestly I’m probably going to lose the tank sadly since there’s no signs of improvement anywhere and they’ve stopped eating. I tried all methods starting with heat and salt, then meds, then after 2 weeks of that not working I tried heat and salt again to no avail. I guess it’s just a lesson for me to quarantine better. Im just glad I didn’t put them all in my main tank immediately. They all went to a grow out/quarantine until they were bigger but I got 5 total fish within a week from 2 different locations. The last 2 brought in the ich. It really sucks.
Did you actually add the proper amount of salt?
Unless its concentratrated enough, it is like doing nothing.
You need 1lb for a 29 gallon tank, any less, you might as well not treat at all.
Unless its concentratrated enough, it is like doing nothing.
You need 1lb for a 29 gallon tank, any less, you might as well not treat at all.
So in other words you added 80 tsp's to your tank?
If you didn't add 80, it wouldn't work.
I personally would zone out trying to count 80, that's why a use the proper weight.
If you didn't add 80, it wouldn't work.
I personally would zone out trying to count 80, that's why a use the proper weight.
No it’s a 29 gallon tank filled with about 25 gallons of water so that the filter water can drop further creating more surface agitation since the temperature is high. It already had a good bit of salt in it but once I read on it it wasn’t enough. It was probably a half teaspoon to a full teaspoon per gallon. So when I added more I added 50 teaspoons since I had 25 gallons of water in it and it was 2 teaspoons per gallon.
The 3 ppt salinity is the "minimum to kill ich".
50 tsps is still about 1/3rd to little, to actually do the job for 25 gallons, especially on a heavy case.
Ich is a tough parasite, with a tough outer cell membrane, and what you are trying to do with the salt, is create enough osmotic pressure to make their outer cell membrane implode. Even a few tsps too little and most will escape the implosion, 25 less is like giving them a scratch.
50 tsps is still about 1/3rd to little, to actually do the job for 25 gallons, especially on a heavy case.
Ich is a tough parasite, with a tough outer cell membrane, and what you are trying to do with the salt, is create enough osmotic pressure to make their outer cell membrane implode. Even a few tsps too little and most will escape the implosion, 25 less is like giving them a scratch.
