Hi, I have had ich in my planted tank once before and I have loads of plants from anubis, swords, moss balls and foxtail, and the saly has never harmed them too much. Yeah after about a week of the semi brackish conditions caused the plants to reallly slow in growth and a few leaves to go light green, but that in my books is an acceptable set back for the health of the fish.
Ich In planted tank.
- Thread starter Bizzaro
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If you treat your tank with heat, and leave it that way for 2wks, you will have outlasted even the newest of spores of the ich protozoan - so it won't matter if they are on the plants or not.
The products Kick-Ich and Rally (Ruby Reef) worked wonders on a full planted show tank of mine with fish and invertibrates (no loss and fixed the Ich problem - did use multiple heaters set for 84 degrees too)
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Ok The ich has moved to my Sucker fish.... Can i do this... Take all the plants into another tank(60g) Leave the fish the rocks the woods... Give them a heatblast with salt for a few days. Then when its safe move all the plants back into the 29g tank? Or will the ich jump with the plants? And attack my 60g? Another thing is... I have no idea if the level in the 60g are enuff to feed the plants. So here my idea... Take dirty water from my 240g (which i know need to be changed) drain 10g out of the 60 then add 10g of dirty water to keep my plants feed?
Both Rally and Kick-Ich are copper free (the mfg customer service told me). I use these in my quarantine tanks (one of which is actually a planted tank) without any ill effects - same for the show tanks for fish to big to move. Neither has ever killed any plants or invertibrates in my tanks and in my salt tanks the same as well as no problem with live rock / coral.
If an infection is real bad, I have also used uv and ozone too on my salt tanks, but a bit expensive to do it right (will work for freshwater too).
A link that will give you a little more info on Kick-Ich is:
www.aquadepot.co.il/store/download.asp?file=5981@515388130.doc
A good article on the saltwater side is located at:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/sp/feature/index.php
Hope this helps
Cheers
If an infection is real bad, I have also used uv and ozone too on my salt tanks, but a bit expensive to do it right (will work for freshwater too).
A link that will give you a little more info on Kick-Ich is:
www.aquadepot.co.il/store/download.asp?file=5981@515388130.doc
A good article on the saltwater side is located at:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/sp/feature/index.php
Hope this helps
Cheers
