ICH help!

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Kanta

Kanta

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Ok so about a week ago or so there was a huge ice storm in Iowa and power lines went down, trees fell over, transformers blew and all that junk. I got power back after about 8 hours or so, tried everything keeping my tanks warm and such. After about 4 days of my tanks being back to normal I noticed a huge ICH outbreak on my 2 red dot sevs. My 2 frontosa and my little rocket gar are fine though. I did my water change to make the water warmer (82-85) and am doing my 2-3 daily ich treatments with the ich treating solution. Is there anything else I should know? Any advice?
 
Kanta;3825160; said:
Ok so about a week ago or so there was a huge ice storm in Iowa and power lines went down, trees fell over, transformers blew and all that junk. I got power back after about 8 hours or so, tried everything keeping my tanks warm and such. After about 4 days of my tanks being back to normal I noticed a huge ICH outbreak on my 2 red dot sevs. My 2 frontosa and my little rocket gar are fine though. I did my water change to make the water warmer (82-85) and am doing my 2-3 daily ich treatments with the ich treating solution. Is there anything else I should know? Any advice?
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Get a good UV light in there, im glad my tanks make it ok with the wacky iowa weather. This our 5th blizzard now? Go to petsmart and get what you need.
 
Enemyarms;3825174; said:
Get a good UV light in there, im glad my tanks make it ok with the wacky iowa weather. This our 5th blizzard now? Go to petsmart and get what you need.
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Yeah I lost count of the storms this winter, can you explain a UV light to me please?
 
Don't bother with meds, it is not necessary. I have delt with ich on many new fish, and have had full recoveries. Like you said, turn the heat up to 82 and do a light gravel vac every other day. The heat will speed up the life cycle of the parasite causing it to fall off the fish and encyst. You do a gravel vac to pic up the ones that fell into the substrate before they hatch. You can add salt or melafix to help the fish recover faster (the holes that are left where the ich was) so they are less likely to become reinfected.

Jimmy
 
2004exrider;3825433; said:
Don't bother with meds, it is not necessary. I have delt with ich on many new fish, and have had full recoveries. Like you said, turn the heat up to 82 and do a light gravel vac every other day. The heat will speed up the life cycle of the parasite causing it to fall off the fish and encyst. You do a gravel vac to pic up the ones that fell into the substrate before they hatch. You can add salt or melafix to help the fish recover faster (the holes that are left where the ich was) so they are less likely to become reinfected.

Jimmy
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you wont get much better advise than this
 
2004exrider;3825433; said:
Don't bother with meds, it is not necessary. I have delt with ich on many new fish, and have had full recoveries. Like you said, turn the heat up to 82 and do a light gravel vac every other day. The heat will speed up the life cycle of the parasite causing it to fall off the fish and encyst. You do a gravel vac to pic up the ones that fell into the substrate before they hatch. You can add salt or melafix to help the fish recover faster (the holes that are left where the ich was) so they are less likely to become reinfected.

Jimmy
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Thanks for the advice, my Sevs are starting to heal much better now, they still have some ich but it's not as abundant as it used to be, hopefully less than a week or so and it will be fully healed.
 
Ich gone, thanks a bunch :)
 
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