Ich getting worse

[swifty]

Last sunday I raised the temp on my tank to 88 degrees. I've been doing water changes every 1-2 days since then. It's only really effected my newest pickups, a BNP and blue acara which I purchased late july/early august.

I can't use salt or meds because my tank is planted. I read a lot of different opinions and most said that heat alone at 86 f + was good enough.

After the first few days it seemed to disappear, however on the 3-4th day it started showing up on my blue acara. It got even worse in the past few days, and this morning he is almost completely covered. My BNP also hasn't shown any difference, she has just about the same amount of spots on her.

The other inhabitants, are 10 black skirt tetras and 1 firemouth. They're just perfectly fine. They've been handling the raise in temperature quite well; eating and moving around like normal.

So does ich really get worse before it gets better? It's been about 11 days since I've rasied the temp and increased water changes. I read that sometimes it takes up to 2-4 weeks for some strains of ich, but the blue acara and BNP not getting better concern me.

I'm not sure if I should try 90 degrees or just keep them at 88 for another week or 2.

 

[Aquanero]

It can be stubborn. I would stick to 88 for a while. Can you add salt to your tank at 1 teaspoon per ten gallons of water at this concentration it will not hurt them. However I would like you to post a picture of the fish to make sure this is ick and not costia.

 

[SickSauce]

Quarantine tank would help you alot and you can add Salt

 

[swifty]

Forgot to put them in my first post:





Everything I came across led me to believe any salt at all would destroy my plants, that's why I've been do hesitant on it.

 

[shelbybmc]

 

[LungfishFTW]

My fish tanks used to have insidious ich outbreaks, but I used this product called QuICK Cure and it got rid of all the ich almost instantly.

 

[Aquanero]

Api Ich cure can be used in a planted tank. The ich will kill that fish. The system must be treated and this may be a heat resistant strain. A little salt will not kill the plants either.

 

[JOSCAR05]

Worst case of ick I've ever seen gl man. Maybe get a uv serilizer for now to help with that and for future prevention. Might help.


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[swifty]

Well, I got home a bit ago and noticed he's occasionally swimming upside down now.

I'm pretty pissed, because I kept reading the same things on a lot of the articles/posts online about ich regarding it'd get worse before it got better and figured it was part of the process. Him being the only one with spots and still eating like a pig I figured he was fine. I'm just going to euthanize with vodka/frozen water because he's not looking like he'll get through it.

I feel bad but now I understand why everyone stresses a quarantine tank. The last 8 months I've had no deaths or water issues, other than a temperamental firemouth killing 2 tetras. The blue acara and bnp being the only ones affected lead me to believe the LFS must have just had a bad shipment, since they were both from that same shipment.

How do I go about setting up a quarantine tank? Just a standard filter to cycle the tank, bare bottom/no decor and a heater set at 80+?

 

[Aquanero]

Too bad about the fish, sorry to hear it.

Yeah that's basicly a QT tank Just water and a cycled filter. The UV is a great suggestion just turn it off for few hours when if and when dosing ferts.