Ich, treatment documentation

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After a power outage, and significant drop in temp, 1 line of tanks developed ich
1/26/15

because the line of 6 tanks totals at least 300 gallons just bringing temp back to normal was difficult so the first thing I did was start adding handfuls of salt to the most severely infected tank, with lake Barumbi mbo cichlids, trying to slowly bring salinity to at least 3ppt


day 2 , picked up 4 bottles of, and started adding Nox Ich in addition to salt

1/27/15

1/28/15 started another bottle of NI and added another 300 drops, and another couple handfuls

1/29/15, another dose of 300, handful of salt, a bit of improvement.

1/30/15 another dose of 300 drops, few more handfuls of salt, starting to look optomistic

beside the Sarotherodon in the pics, the tank includes 3 Synodontus cats, still hanging in there

and a pair of Stomatepia pindu
1/26/15

1/30/15
 
daaaamn....I've never seen a case that bad...thats rough stuff...

what type of mortons salt do you use? as in its real world application it was intended for haha
 
The salt is a 25lb bag of water softener salt, it is NaCl compacted into hard pellets.
I always keep a bag at the ready, (use the same stuff for hatching artemia) and will keep up the treatment for another 2 weeks or so, even though symptoms may seem to disappear.
I'm on the 4th bottle of Nox Ich, after tomorrow I will still treat, but probably every other day instead of daily.
Fish in other tanks of the same line were also infected, though not quite as severely.

 
1/31/15 (today) color back, and almost all cysts gone.
I am not naive enough to believe there are not still dormant cysts in the substrate ready to go, so I will keep up the salinity for at least another week, or more to lyse them as they hatch out.
 
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