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You may choose to listen to a video influencer over us, but we are not running a business selling you aquarium products nor are we sponsored by the product companies.
For others reading this, you can save your money and your fish by choosing one treatment. My preference is heat (NOT the 82 quoted in this thread, 86 is better).
You guys are sometimes a bit much, you know that? The API instructions suggest doing both. See here:
Rid your fish of ich quickly and effectively with API LIQUID SUPER ICK CURE Freshwater and Saltwater Fish Medicatio. API LIQUID SUPER ICK CURE...
www.apifishcare.com
While it is well-known that water holds less oxygen at higher temperatures, my running
both a UGF
and an HOB with only 6 guppies in a 10 gallon tank (even if the juvenile gourami were still with us) eliminates all concern about low oxygenation. If you look up guppies, they are fine in 64-84F water. The honey gourami is fine 72-82F, so 82F recommended by API is not excessive. The fish should not be heat stressed, and oxygenation in my particular case is not problematic.
Most people I see online, like Cory from Aquarium Co-op, say, "This is
my way, it's not
the way, there are
other ways to do things. People can agree to disagree, and also several avenues can be effective." A lot of folks around here are a bit too dogmatic, IMO. Your comment above falls into that category.
@Naughts I consider
you the equivalent of an Internet influencer. The guy in the video I quoted is in the aquarium fish business, has a microbiology masters degree, and teaches fish courses at a local college. Your comment about his being sponsored by the product companies was flat out ridiculous. He was not sponsored by the company making the product he uses, and he made that clear. I'll take his advice over yours any day of the week. I do realize, of course, there are less informed folks on the Internet, and some are sponsored by product companies. He was not in that category.
I like coming here for education, and I appreciate the wide range of information, and the flexibility many of the people here exhibit. I like the collaborative approach I see in many threads, where several experienced members go back and forth over several methods. But after your comment I did more research, and you won't find any veterinary medicine or university paper suggesting not raising the temperature while using a medication (although I'm quite sure it's common advice on forums). They caution against overdoing it, to be sure, but I'm within the natural temperature range of my fish, I'm going no higher. You're probably repeating advice heard on fish forums, if you find a study saying what I'm doing is wrong or dangerous, post the link, I'll eat some crow.
There is another member here
who I appreciate immensely because of his wealth of knowledge but he's constantly harping that this site or that site or that forum is
90% wrong, discount everything you read there. That's also ridiculous. I've learned enough to recognize some misinformation on other sites already. Partly from learning here, partly from my own research, but I see some misinformation at some sites, and a lot of good stuff, too, I'm not going to toss the baby with the bath water. And while he's knowledgeable, he's insistent you have to use a specific brand of foam (which is admittedly the best), and you have to use 10-20-30 PPI progression and NO MORE or you'll clog the finer foam immediately. That's just nuts. I have 6-7 small fish in a tank with a UGF and HOB filter, which has a 20 PPI prefilter on the intake followed by a
full five inches of 30 PPI foam topped by a 1/2" thick piece of 40 PPI foam for water polishing. That polishing pad won't likely clog in a month of Sundays in my tank, but I clean it monthly regardless.
1. There are lots of different effective ways to do things in this hobby.
2. There are a lot of very experienced people on this forum, but ...
2a. They do not have the only "revealed truth" and,
2b There is lots of competing information out there which I think is too quickly discounted here
I love this place, and sorry for the rant. But after a couple months here it's been my observation that although there a
lot of folks who
suggest different ways, and acknowledge that there
are different ways, and suggest I
consider this or that or correct me when I'm flat out wrong. And there are also a few who are a bit too full of themselves and very dismissive of every other source of information. That's kind of aggravating, they should lighten up a little.
[/rant] I'm probably upset over losing my fish, and now setting up a quarantine tank. Thanks to all who posted thoughts.
