Treating Ich

[cuticom]

I've just had an outbreak of ich in one of my larger tanks and I've removed all the fish to a quarantine tub to treat them with meds. But as for the tank, what can I do to get rid of any free swimming parasites? I'd rather not break it down totally, so was wondering if I turned the temp up as far as it'll go (34 degrees celsius) and left the tank for a week with no fish/snails etc in it, the only living thing being some plants, would that be ok? Would that completely get rid of the ich? Since it has nothing to latch onto?

The fish themselves I'll be treating with salt with the heater turned up to 25 degrees.

 

[WILDER]

To be honest can't see why you have moved the fish out of the tank, should of just treated the main tank, you have transferred the whitespot to another tank now.Whitespot will not live without a host.Turn temp up in main tank that will kill them off faster.Need to raise the temp to 30 in the other tank aswell.Caused more stress to the fish by moving them out.

 

[cuticom]

I don't have enough meds to treat the 55, plus its an absolute jungle and if a fish gets worse or dies, I won't be able to tell. There in a quarantine tub, once their better the tub will be bleached, so it doesn't really matter if they bring ich to it. Hence why its a quarantine tub.

30 degrees is a bit far, the fish are goldfish and the tank was coldwater, was thinking of taking the Q tub up to 25. Will take the main tanks heat up to 34 degrees it should kill the ich outright (93 Fahrenheit)

So that should work? I also moved the fish as one in particular was pretty bad with some sort of fungus a while ago and I'm a tad worried he may be resistant to the meds, it's easier to spot in a barebottom tank with nothing then in a tank crammed with decorations and plants where I may see him once a day if I'm lucky.

Oky dokes, as soon as the heater in the Q tub gets to the same temp as the tank I'll move the fish across and start medicating and crank the heat up in the tank.

 

[WILDER]

The fish with the fluff where was it on the fish a if it was columnaris it's bacterial.
As long as the goldfish have plenty of aeration in the tank raising the temp will be ok.

 

[cuticom]

It was a few months back, he's better now. Long story short they were living in a rubbermaid tub I was using as an indoor pond lining, toxins leaked out of tub, destroyed scales, slime coat and pretty much everything in the tank, the plants didn't even survive. I lost 7 fish, managed to save 2. Both got secondary infections. One got what looked to be hemorrhagic septicemia, near toxic salt dips finally managed to fix that. And the other fish a black moore turned white, it wasn't columnaris, as I've seen that before, it was as if Onyx had been dipped in milk. I ended up using salt dips, as well as 2 other meds to finally destroy whatever the hell the stuff was. Only I had to use them at pretty toxic levels, hence why I think he may be resistant now.

Well have started ich treatment, they all seem to be looking mildly happier, and there actual tank which they are no longer in has risen to 34 degrees, and is very hot. Byebye stupid parasites LOL. I'll keep bringing the fishes temp up slowly to 29/30 and see how they go.