Ok, so ALL of the inhabitants in my 180, 125, and 75 gal tanks have ich, BAD. This is either because we lost power a couple of days ago for about half a day and the fish got stressed out, or because we've been getting a lot of rain lately and I heard that sometimes, when rivers flood, the town will add extra chemicals to the town water to keep bacteria levels down. I do use water conditioner and such, and I still haven't gotten around to calling the town to ask if they've done anything different with the water, but I guess we have that problem quite often in my area.
Anyways, long story short, I've tripled the dosage of aquarium salt and have the temp at 86-88F. Now, would it be beneficial if I hooked up my super duper pond filter with UV sterilizer, rated for ponds up to 4000 gallons? I figured that this should at least kill off the free-swimming ich that gets sucked into the filter, right? Or would it be harmful to the fish? If not, is there anything else that I could do with it, like maybe stir up the gravel to try to get some of the ich living in the gravel to get sucked up into the UV? Or will this stress out the fish some more? Also, how long should I leave the pond filter/UV going for?
Mind you, that while I do this, my pond will have to go without the filter. However, my pond's pretty big, with very few fish in it, so they don't really need a filter. I just use it to keep the water from becoming algae-ridden and green. Plus, I would much rather lose some of my 25-cent pond comets than my expensive tropical fish
Anyways, long story short, I've tripled the dosage of aquarium salt and have the temp at 86-88F. Now, would it be beneficial if I hooked up my super duper pond filter with UV sterilizer, rated for ponds up to 4000 gallons? I figured that this should at least kill off the free-swimming ich that gets sucked into the filter, right? Or would it be harmful to the fish? If not, is there anything else that I could do with it, like maybe stir up the gravel to try to get some of the ich living in the gravel to get sucked up into the UV? Or will this stress out the fish some more? Also, how long should I leave the pond filter/UV going for?
Mind you, that while I do this, my pond will have to go without the filter. However, my pond's pretty big, with very few fish in it, so they don't really need a filter. I just use it to keep the water from becoming algae-ridden and green. Plus, I would much rather lose some of my 25-cent pond comets than my expensive tropical fish
