I'm using the heat treatment on ich in my tank (as per http://www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_ich2.php.) The temperature will be near 90F for a few days, then at 86F for more than a week after that. I'll be doing daily 25% water changes and I'm really worried about adding so much water that's 10-15 degrees cooler than the tankwater, especially now, when the fish need to be stressed as little as possible.
If you've done this treatment in the past and can share your experience, I'd really appreciate it!
2006-12-19 12:03:37 · 6 answers · asked by ceci9293 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
Corrected link: http://www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_ich2.php
Thank you for calling my attention to that!
2006-12-19 12:30:54 · update #1
Just use warmer water out of your tap and dechlorinate it. I find that ich is best treated with heat and a total blackout of the aquarium, tape cardboard to all of the sides and leave it there for three days.
The other reliable way is to use a blended drug called Clout, it works well.
2006-12-19 13:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by Johnny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The link doesn't work but hopefully you are using salt to kill the ich since the heat only quickens their life cycle. To get the water hotter for the water changes just use hot water from the tap.
2006-12-19 12:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by Nunya Biznis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I simply use hot water from the tap and add the appropriate dechlor.
Alternatively you can put the water in a bucket with a heater set to the appropriate temp and let it sit over night.
2006-12-19 13:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're basically going to must wait and notice, and supply the medicine time to do it quite is job. 5 days isn't long sufficient to do away with the undertaking. it quite is organic so which you would be able to verify an enhance in spots in the past each and every thing, through fact the parasites are not at present seen interior the fish. they ought to finished this area of the existence cycle and pass away the fish in the past the medicine can paintings. Doing a water exchange won't help the situation. whilst they pass away the fish for replica they sink to the backside of the tank they do no longer swim around. Even interior the loose swimming point it may be a crap shoot which you will possibly siphon out sufficient to be of any help in any respect. pass away your tank water right the place it quite is and proceed the therapy. at the same time as i for my area choose for Clout for the therapy of maximum exterior parasites which incorporate Ich; the Maracide which you're utilising will paintings basically fantastic in case you provide it time. Addendum: you ought to forget approximately approximately jbjack32. He says which you ought to in no way use meds for treating Ich, and then does no longer help his place. He tries to state that utilising Ich drugs lowers O2 and reasons fish rigidity, yet grants no evidence. the clarification is via the fact none exists. there's no longer something incorrect with utilising drugs in the event that they are used right. i'm useful that jbjack32 makes use of drugs on himself whilst his surgeon prescribes it! As for killing fish with drugs, it relatively is likewise fake. in case you stick to the the suitable option protocol your fish would be basically fantastic and the Ich won't. the clarification that the medicine takes a at the same time as is the comparable reason that salt does. you ought to attend out the existence cycle of the parasite till it leaves the fish and could become susceptable to therapy. are not getting me incorrect, salt will paintings besides, yet no swifter and not any further suitable. the undertaking you run into with salt is dosing. in case you spot everybody at right here has a various dosage to propose. at the same time as maximum species do fantastic, some do no longer tolerate salt nicely. If the concentration is basically too intense burns may be the end result. utilising a scientifically formulated drugs is a greater suitable selection; through fact it is going to of course define the effectual dosage and in case you stick to it, you ought to have minimum probablility of problems with optimal effectiveness.
2016-10-15 06:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't use hot water on a regular basis. I guess in this case it's ok..
Your hot water comes from you boiler in your basement... And the boiler contains a lot of heavy metals that'll in the long run bad for your aquarium.
2006-12-19 13:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by professorminh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use an automatic HEATER
2006-12-19 18:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by hhhhhhh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋