ich medication is CRAP... dont fall for it. Its totally unesessary IMHO> You can easily treat Ich with the Heat/Salt therapy and dont have to resort to medications that can ting your water blue or dye your silicone blue. Not to mention, you'll probably go through an entire bottle of the crap. But it doesnt say that on there. They dont tell you the life cycle of the ich parasite is longer than the recomended treatment on the bottle..
But i digress.
Just raise the temp slowly to 82 (a degree every few hours)
Add Aquarium salt at 1 Tbsp/5 gallons of water. NOT SALTWATER TANK SALT.
Its at the petstore and its called "aquarium salt"
Do that for no less than 14 days. That is the life cycle of the Ich parasite. You need to treat for an entire 14 days or your fish could be reinfected.
During that time. Keep the temp up - this will speed the life cylce of the parasite along
and keep the salt in the tank....
SOOO
when you do water changes - which you should still be doing at least once a week. 50-75% water changes are best.
Make sure that when you are adding the clean water, you replenish the salt, but ONLY as much as you took out.
So if you took out 25 gallons of water from the water change. Only put in 5 Tbsp of salt back to the tank.
Your fish will be ich free.
Remember, the ich will go away, you wont see it, but dont stop treatment until 14 days have passed.
. charles do what he said and everything will be okay
If my fish are ever sick, I use them in combination. Temp, salt, meds...