I'm about to give up on my 75gal

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KatieLR

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I have been keeping fish for about 8 yrs, had NEVER had ick ever. About two years ago the aquarium at the place I worked needed me to take a couple fish, so I did (stupid now I know) . Those fish brought ick into my tank. Whipped my tank out, I cleaned the tank, changed all the water, but the aquarium sat running with no fish for a few months.

When I tried again, ick sat in again! Thankfully I had only tried with a couple of guppies. This time my tank sat running for 6 months with no fish. About a month ago I pulled all the plants out, cleaned them, vaccines the gravel numerous times, changed the water, and changed the filter pads. I bought 3 beautiful tinfoil barbs. Ick has now killed two of them.

I don't understand, if the aquarium sat empty for so long, does the ick just stay in my tank? I am pregnant, so it's making me quite emotional.

Please help me! What do I need to do to fix this once and for all, because I'm about to drain it and throw the whole thing in the dumpster.
 
Ich can lay dormant for months as you have experienced. The salt heat method has been a sure fire thing for me. Crank the heat to 84-86 and at 1 table spoon of Aquarium salt for every 5 gallons It works every time. After the last trace of Ich is seen do a water change and treat again for another week. I have never have meds work on Ich and those meds probably aren't safe to handle with you being pregnant. Congrats on the pregnancy by the way.
 
Exactly what rivers said he beat me to it. I have treated ich a couple of times and this method never fails.
 
Thank you for the congrats! I'll be running out to get aquarium salt today, thank you guys so much! I was just so shocked, I had no idea ick could just live in my aquarium with no fish!
 
Raise the temp and add copper. Raising the temp will speed up the process of ich and copper is extremely lethal to crustations and parasites, including ich. Good luck.
EDIT: Just read that you're pregnant. Im not sure if copper will do anything but just incase go with the salt method. Personally I've never used salt to cure ich but it worked for a friend of mine.
 
Use bleach(diluted) and kill everything! Then start anew
 
Just beat ich in two tanks. Most say 86 degrees to treat. I used to do that. I recently, on accident, raised the temp to 90+ during a treatment and I couldn't believe how fast the entire tank cleared up. Fish were fine. These were cichlids not sure what you keep.


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