Raising Temp For Ich

[FishGuest5123]

Just wondering how fast you raise your temp to 86F when treating ich. I have always raised a couple of degrees every few hours. I know most articles say a couple of degrees every 12 hours. What do you guys do?

 

[Byron]

I do not fiddle. First, I alwasys do a major water change at the start of the "treatment" so I use that to increase the temperature a few degrees. My tanks tend to run around 76F, so with this water change it would probably come close to 80-82F. I would turn the heater up to 86F and let it do the rest.

You have to be careful increasing the heater, and it is easy to burn them out with too great an increase at once. The W/C portion avoids this.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I do not fiddle. First, I alwasys do a major water change at the start of the "treatment" so I use that to increase the temperature a few degrees. My tanks tend to run around 76F, so with this water change it would probably come close to 80-82F. I would turn the heater up to 86F and let it do the rest.

You have to be careful increasing the heater, and it is easy to burn them out with too great an increase at once. The W/C portion avoids this.

Great! Getting ready to do one anyway. Thanks again!

 

[Salty&Onion]

When I change temperature on heater, I unplug it first and then take it out of water and then I would dry it and change temperature and then I put it back in the tank. You already might know that, but I thought about just putting my few pennies in

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I do what @Byron does. I put heat in the tank, via water changes.

 

[Salty&Onion]

I do what @Byron does. I put heat in the tank, via water changes.

I do that for my 33 as I don't have a heater for it yett..

 

[FishGuest5123]

When I change temperature on heater, I unplug it first and then take it out of water and then I would dry it and change temperature and then I put it back in the tank. You already might know that, but I thought about just putting my few pennies in

@Salty&Onion, I didn’t know that. What is the purpose?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I didn’t know that. What is the purpose?

I was going to ask that also.

You shouldn’t need to remove your heater if you are doing a W/C. Now if you are going to put a hot heater into cold water, you need to be carful of that. If you do that, your heater could break/crack.

 

[AbbeysDad]

Someone (I forget who) on thiss forum made a great suggestion not long ago. Take a spare submersible heater in a 5g bucket of water and adjust as necessary to obtain 86F.
Now put the heater in the tank with ich and plug it in. The temp comes up slowly to the desired temperature. When the 'cure' is done, simply unplug and remove the heater...the temperature slowly comes back down to the normal temps. I had occasion to try this a couple of weeks ago...it works great!

 

[Salty&Onion]

@Salty&Onion, I didn’t know that. What is the purpose?

Ohh.. I do that so the heater won't fail. After I broke my first heater and getting electrocuted, I started doing that and I find this "not scary".
It's just trauma after the accident..

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Ohh.. I do that so the heater won't fail. After I broke my first heater and getting electrocuted, I started doing that and I find this "not scary".
It's just trauma after the accident..

You can never be to carful I guess?

 

[Salty&Onion]

You can never be to carful I guess?

I never could be careful. Accidents walk in pairs

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I never could be careful. Accidents walk in pairs

Lol.

 

[Salty&Onion]

Lol.

? I'm super un-careful (if that word exists lol)

 

[PheonixKingZ]

? I'm super un-careful (if that word exists lol)

Why do you say that?