Ich treatment...bottom line?

[Cyclop3000]

Heya all. I have an ich outbreak in a 130g tank, all my fish are infected but for the bichir, clown loach and shovelnose. What treatment do you guys use?

I don't like medications personally, so will a salt treatment be enough? If so, what should the salt treatment consist in? Add salt every day? Every other day? for how long?

Also, the shovelnose and loach are scaleless...so I guess I need to move them before I add salt? BTW, what will happend if these guys get salted? Can I leave them in there anyways?

Thanks for the help!

 

[DeLgAdO]

raise the temp to 87-89F

add 2 tablespoons of salt per 5 gallons

treat the tank for AT LEAST 10 days

and you dont have to remove the loaches, they wil be fine.

 

[guppy]

I agree with Delgado but use a bit more salt, I like 2 teaspoons of salt per gallon of water, as he says you must treat for at least 10 days to catch all the motile parasites as they hatch out. I dissolve the salt in water before adding it and turn up the heat, I also add a power head or airstone to get more surface movement as salting will lower the ability of water to carry O2 a bit. I try to get away with no water changes until the 10 days are up but if I need too I do up to a 50% water change and gravel vac midway through. The replacement water also contains 2 tsp. salt per gallon. These are the only times during treatment that I add salt. At the end of the treatment I do a partial water change with unsalted waterand just go back to my usual schedual not worrying about the residual salt, each time you do a rergular water change the salt level will be reduced until it is neglible.