Treatment for ICH

[Derpeder]

I'm dealing with a slight case of ich. I used the salt method to get rid of it.

My question is how many times do i do the salt thing. Once? or a number of times?
and How far apart should I do it if I need to do it more than once.


I'm at 2.5 tspn per gallon right now.

thanks

 

[WILDER]

What fish do you have as some can't tolerate salt or high temps.

 

[Derpeder]

I have tiger barbs (5) cichlids (4) and a pleco

they are all doing great with 2.5 tspn per gallon. not stressed, or acting wierd in anyway.

I put that much salt in over a 2 day period so it would stress them out so much.

 

[tttnjfttt]

Be very careful with the pleco and salt. Everything I have read says not to use salt with scaleless fish, which includes the pleco.

 

[Derpeder]

thats good to know. but what about the treatment does anyone know?

 

[tttnjfttt]

There are lots of treatments out there. I recently used Jungle's Ich Clear tablets on a betta, and it worked fine. Regardless of what you use, make sure you follow the directions as they are written, as some need to be used at 1/2 strength for the pleco. Also, slowly raising the temp to 84 can speed up the ich life cycle.

http/badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article2.html

How big is your tank and what types of plecos do you have?

 

[WILDER]

depends on a location for meds.