Ick fighting

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I just got done treating my tank...my clown loaches had ich BAD. I raised temps to 86 and used 1 tablespoon of salt per 5 gallons. A week later, no signs of Ich and fish are doing well. 88F might be a bit excessive and 3 tablespoons of salt per 5 gallons (as someone else mentioned) might also be too much. You want to find the happy medium of killing the Ich, but not damage your fish in the process.

Also make sure you have plenty of aeration and/or water movement at the surface and you'll be fine. Good Luck!
 
Aeration is deff good. I have enough air stones for a 150 and it's a 75. And current is a fx5 and xp4. Again alittle overkill. Tomorrow I'll add 1 tablespoon for every 10 that will with today's treatment put me at 1 tablespoon for every 5 gallons. My little loaches with 3 have died look the worse. I doubt they will make it no matter what. But my tig has just got starting signs and my 3 7" loaches are taking the treatment hard but the outbreak on them isn't to bad.


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Ok so today is day 6 on herbtana and have yet to see any improvements. This is also day 6 at 86-88F. Still no help just made it worse in my opinion. It's day 2 for salt at 1Tsp per gallon. Fish are taking the salt hard. As said above my death toll is 8 if I counted right multiple fish dying at once. Any way I have a tigrinus and 3 7" loaches left and 1 little one. The 7" are eating and don't have bad ich. But the seem extremely extremely stressed the lay straight flat breathing very hard. I don't want to lose them or the tigrinus. What should I do? Stick with the salt Temp and herbtana. Or get off all of it and try something new? I did do a 20g water change today. ( tank is 75g) I add salt for what I took out along with herbtana. Any input would be great. All previous input was awesome thank you.


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