Holy crap guys! I might as well give up fish forever...

[Burto]

I don't know what kind of rock salt you've got, but I've got two bags in my kitchen, both intended for human consumption; plain rock salt and iodised rock salt. Both (allegedly) made from evaporated sea water and nothing else, iodised with potassium iodide added.

Anyway, +1 to heat and salt for curing ich.

 

[Sarah88]

well if that is the case then it should be fine it will just take longer to dissolve it first before adding to the tank than the free-flowing powder salt.

 

[bob965]

w/c's are sooooooo over rated ... if you have proper filtration you really just need to top off and that is enough fresh water ...

EXACTLY!! I'm tired of reading lies like, you should do water changes, the earth is round and orbits the sun, blah blah blah.

 

[PaiLum92]

Why did the tanks water could over? its really cloudy now after the table salt... never happend before when i used aquarium salt...
Kinda afraid itll kill the fish... not sure... if other people were successfull with it, maybe i can be too... Shes still really scared, even after the night and total darkness, should i drape a towel over her tank?

 

[balton777]

Alright guys, please argue elsewere, im trying to find out how i can treat this Ick before it kills my fish...

Raise your temperature to 87F. That will kill the ich. After the symptoms go away, keep the temp at 87F for at least another five to seven days. No salt, medication, or chemicals are necessary. You might want to add some extra aeration during the process.

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(To Iffrat, even if your water params are in check, it seems your water must be doo doo brown. After even just seven days, my water starts to turn color. I do a 75% water change weekly, I can't imagine six months with no water change, that would be disgusting.)

 

[Sarah88]

the tank will get cloudy for a little while right after you add the salt, it is just the excess salt that hasnt dissolved yet, but it should dissolve all the way and the water should clear back up within an hour or so

 

[balton777]

How did salt get into this? Salt won't cure ich but temperature will. Not 82 or 83 or even 85 degrees. It needs to be at 86F or higher. I recommend 87F+ to kill your ich problem. If your temp fluctuates some, you don't want it to go below 86.

 

[Gervahlt]

Wow. Just wow.

To the OP: do your research on ich. Figure out how its life-cycle works and you will see how to kill it. I used the high-temp/salt combo and it worked great for me. Best of luck with your jag.

To the "top off" water-change idiot: one way or another, you're lying. Either you're keeping your fish in much higher nitrates than you're claiming, or you're doing water changes. Even if your water had ZERO nitrates in it from the tap (yeah right), 20% water changes on a 30 ppm nitrate concentration would give your tank about 20-25ppm nitrates AFTER the water change. So, in 6 MONTHS, your fish only poop enough to add 5-10ppm in a 150 gallon tank, eh? 4 Giant Danios, 2 Dats, and 2 Motoro rays? And this supposedly works for your 130 gallon tank with 2 Oscars, 2 Red Hook Silvers, a Royal Clown Knife and a Common Pleco, too? AND your 75 gallon with the Jag and Common Pleco??? I don't care how much you're starving your plecos, they put out more poop than that...and so do the rest of your fish.

 

[VRWC]

How did salt get into this? Salt won't cure ich but temperature will. Not 82 or 83 or even 85 degrees. It needs to be at 86F or higher. I recommend 87F+ to kill your ich problem. If your temp fluctuates some, you don't want it to go below 86.

salt at a concentration of 2-3 ppt (1/10th the salinity of sea water or 0.02-0.03 parts per million: ppm) is safe for most fish, and protozoa cannot live in this level of salinity.

Combined with the raising of temperature to speed up their life cycle, it helps kill off all 3 stages of the ich (1st-Trophont 2nd-Tomont & 3rd-Theronts).

Also, most ich protozoa have trouble surviving in anything over 82 degrees, so anything higher will just help speed the process of killing them.

 

[balton777]

salt at a concentration of 2-3 ppt (1/10th the salinity of sea water or 0.02-0.03 parts per million: ppm) is safe for most fish, and protozoa cannot live with this level of salinity.

Combined with the raising of temperature to speed up their life cycle, it helps kill off all 3 stages of the ich (1st-Trophont 2nd-Tomont & 3rd-Theronts).

So you would recommend salt for ich....hmmm. I've always just done the temp/extra aeration method if I had an outbreak and had successful results. Thanks for the info.