So far I've lost a cat fish and a bala shark.. My other catfish now has it but is still living.. I've taken all of my other fish who don't have it and placed them in a clean tank.. I dont want to lose another fish.. so far i've turned the heat temp up and added salt.. what else can i do or buy?!
Ich help!
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as long as the temperature is up at an appropriate level, and the salt dosed correctly, you are doing everything right
leave your heat at 87-88F for 3 weeks. I never use salt, but it works well too. Just dissolve it in a cup of warm water before adding to the tank, so it won't cause burns on your bottom dwellers. Don't worry, everyone gets ich eventually. It is really easy to treat. Good luck 
After a heater crapped out a couple weeks ago, my hait female got ich. I raised the temp to 90'F over 48 hours and added 10 lbs of rock salt (to 300 gal) bringing the salinity to >3 parts per thousand. Within 24 hours she looked 90 % better, and the cysts have not returned. But because the cysts have a dorment stage I am continuing the treatment of salt and heat for @ a month.
Within 48 hours of the treatment, they spawned.
Within 48 hours of the treatment, they spawned.
Heat and Salt, amazing.
I work as a microbiobiologist, and found it in one of my old text books, that temps of over 90'F and salinity over 3ppt are the ticket to kill the vulnerable tomites, ever since reading that, it's been my treatment of choice.
Also remember the white spots is a stage the ich can't be killed by anything, it's only when they are hatching out of the fish, or emerging from out of the substrate. Haitiensus love heat though, so be careful if your fish can't.
I work as a microbiobiologist, and found it in one of my old text books, that temps of over 90'F and salinity over 3ppt are the ticket to kill the vulnerable tomites, ever since reading that, it's been my treatment of choice.
Also remember the white spots is a stage the ich can't be killed by anything, it's only when they are hatching out of the fish, or emerging from out of the substrate. Haitiensus love heat though, so be careful if your fish can't.
That is good to hear, I've used salt on heat on any cichlid I've had with ich, and it has never failed me, and they recovered quickly. I've done so with mostly CA and hardy SA cichlids like acaras and sevs, and they really didn't seem too stressed by the 90 degree temps