Have you successfully treated Ich?

[Nospherith]

Thank you for participating.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

When you say "successfully" treated do you mean as curing it with no fish deaths at all or just eliminating it from the tank?

 

[Jen]

I treated with drops, and had no deaths. Not every time, but once that happened.

 

[Fish Buddy]

I raise the temp- do a waterchange and add some aquarium salt and usually all is well in a day or two

 

[LoachLover]

Yes, I've had the best luck getting rid of ich on bettas

 

[thatmagicguy]

Ich is completely treatable without meds,,,,, http/billismad.tripod.com/id7.html

Have a peek, Bill

 

[Spyder]

I had it once a few years back in my 120 gallon tank, a community with Clown Loaches. I treated by raising the temp to 82 and treated with coppersafe. I did loose one Black Phantom Tetra. The tank was stocked with 40 fish so I guess it was successful, I don't know, success to me would be no deaths.

 

[isu_guy]

i didn't want to weigh in on the *cough* never had ich *cough* because I was affraid I'd jinx myself.

Now excuse me while I go knock on some (drift)wood.

 

[millym]

hi
we used waterlifes protozin when a couple of our cardinals & rummy nose tetras had ich & it worked v well. we are limited as to what we can use as we have loaches & shrimps in our tank

 

[linz85]

hi im new here ... ive had ick for about two/three weeks.
lost countless fish(neons,rams,platies,guppys).
added salt to the tank=no avail.
turned the temp up=no avail.
used interpet white spot plus=no avail!
the nitrite is nil,nitrate low and dont have a kit for ammonia yet.
can anyone give me anymore ideas on how to rid this horrid disease?
please.
would be much appriated
thanks linzi

 

[CFC]

This is a artical i wrote for another site so since i cannot link to it i'll copy and paste it here.

ICH is probably the most commonly encountered disease in tropical aquariums and every aquarist will have had dealings with it at some time in their fish keeping career. If caught early and treated quickly then it is very easy to cure and represents no more of a problem to your fish then a pimple on your face would you.

How do i know my fish have ICH?

The early symptoms of fish having ICH is fish flicking and rubbing themselves against the substrate and decor in the tank, the gills may appear redder than usual and small white dots the size of a grain of sugar will be noticeable on the body and fins.
The parasite has a 3 stage cycle of growth first appearing on the fish as a white dot where it feeds on the host, it then frees itself from the host and drops to the substrate where it divides and lastly the cyst explodes into upto 1000 free swimming zoospores which start the cycle again once they find a host. The parasite can only be affected by conventional aquarium medications while the parasite is in this last free swimming form.

How do i treat ICH?

When treating ICH first do a 50% water change and vacume to remove as many of the free swimming parasites and undivided cysts as possible. Next slowly raise the temperature of the aquarium to 29c to speed up the life cycle of the parasite and providing you have no scaleless or salt intollerent fish add aquarium salt at a dose of 1 tsp per 5 gallons of water which will aid the fishes recovery.
Next you MUST use a medication designed for the treatment of ICH and follow the instructions for use printed on the bottle, highly recomended are INTERNET NUMBER 6 ANTI WHITE SPOT PLUS and WATERLIFE PROTOZIN. Continue with the treatment until it has been 7 days since the last spots were seen.


Personally i have never lost a fish to ICH.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I only had Ich once, and apart from neons i didn't lose any fish but then again neons aern't exactly the best fish to overcome such deseases...

 

[parker313]

I had ich in my last tank, but successfully treated it and didn't lose a fish.

This tank, I haven't had any illnesses other than multiple deaths from some mystery toxin but that's all cleared up now too.

 

[G_Sharky]

I never used any meds for ICH, I just use the heat and salt treatment and It work great...It took longer, but atleast my fish weren't stress and I haven't loss any of them.....

 

[NinjaSmurf]

My pictus got ich soon after I bought it, I just cranked up the temp and did a bunch of water changes, worked like a charm.