My advice if you are concerned about the temp, which most of your stock will handle with little issue, is to raise it to 80-81, add salt as well as seachem paraguard or rid-ich( I've never used rid-ich so I don't know how harsh it is, but all my fish, scale-less included, handle paraguard without any stress). the raised temp will speed up the life cycle of the parasite, and the salt/med combo will knock it out in the free swimming stage. You are looking at a 7-10 day battle generally. The high temp method prevents the parasite from reproducing but again if you are concerned about the fish handling the hotter temps, I'd go the other route and just treat the tank.
Ich question .
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Chemical will help your defeat ich faster in less than a week (in higher temp ich life cycle would be in 48~72 hours so with chemical all ich would get kill after its become free swimming), without chemical and only use salt, water change, high temp (86~88) you would looking for at least 7~10 days for ich to be gone in your tank and sometimes it might be longer than that. Also, many deadlier parasite would thrive in water temp at 80F+ so after you've defeated ich i would suggest your keep your tank temp at 78~79 but other might disagree though...it's all depend on you to choose your path 
Yeah Iv been keeping it at 80 for ever now but was thinking about the high temp method becuz to be quite honest I was feeling lazy and didn't want to take all of the carbon of of my filters but I definitely should not be lazy especially at a time like this.
you don't even need carbon in your filters to be completely honest, its not doing anything for you. and no it would not be a time to be lazy seeing as you have some large exotic stock.
Iv just always used it partially out of habit but mostly because my fish tank is slap dab in my living room and my wife hates any kind of fishy smells and it does seem to help with that.
I agree with predatorkeeper, now is not the time to be lazy.
The faster you cure ich the less chance of secondary infection afterward.
All those spots leave holes in the fishes skin that any opportunistic bacteria or fungus will quickly take advantage of.
Using a malachite green treatment helps with this, because it also slows the ability of fungus to take hold.
The faster you cure ich the less chance of secondary infection afterward.
All those spots leave holes in the fishes skin that any opportunistic bacteria or fungus will quickly take advantage of.
Using a malachite green treatment helps with this, because it also slows the ability of fungus to take hold.
You shouldn't notice any fish-like smells unless your water params are waaaaaaaaay outta wack, or if you overfeed pellets. Only time I notice a distinct nasty smell is if I overfeed hikari carnivore to my NA native tank. otherwise my tank water has an earthy smell to it generally. Either way you are going to need to take it out unless you plan on heating the tank up instead.
Does everyone agree my tank should be at 78 and not 80 is 2 degrees really going to cause more potential parasite growth?
Take a picture of the tank! This thing must be a beast.
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