Ich problem

[SePPii]

I recently bought 3 Salvini cichlids from a LFS they each had a little bit of ich. I put them in quarantine til they were ich less. Added the 3 to my tank with 2 GTs a week later all my fish have ich. I have turned the temp up I have used quick cure, I have used aquarium salt. And they still have it... Anyone know what's wrong?


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[Shenanigans]

if its ich, remove all the fish to a Qtank. it will be easier to treat them that way. Without a host, the ich in the show tank will die soon. keep the tank temp up and keep adding salt with frequent large water changes. Sometimes ich can be rather difficult to cure, but keep working on it and up the salt concentration if you have to, sometimes I add a copper treatment when it doesnt go well. aerate the tank heavily to help the fish cope with the treatment. hope they pull through for ya GL

 

[SePPii]

Thanks for the help


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[duanes]

Just because the spots are gone from the fish, doesn't mean ich is gone, there is a dormant stage where cysts sit in the sand or gravel waiting for a fish to come by to reinfect. If you have another tank that is uninfected, when you do a water change, add old fish water to the infected tank (without fish in it). This will speed the "hatching' of the dormant cysts and hasten ichs end.

 

[DIDYSIS]

Turn the temp to 86° add the salt and do nothing but feed lightish for a week.

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[sross]

The higher temps will stop the Ich from hatching again and spreading. I usually leave the temp up for at least 1 week or more after the last sign of Ich goes away.

 

[Countryboy]

if its ich, remove all the fish to a Qtank. it will be easier to treat them that way. Without a host, the ich in the show tank will die soon. keep the tank temp up and keep adding salt with frequent large water changes. Sometimes ich can be rather difficult to cure, but keep working on it and up the salt concentration if you have to, sometimes I add a copper treatment when it doesnt go well. aerate the tank heavily to help the fish cope with the treatment. hope they pull through for ya GL

If there are no fish in the tank up the temp. to max 90* or 93*. You won't need salt to kill the protozoa.