ich and water temp

[vaquer0]

one of my tanks has ich , what should i raise the temp to ?? i have it @ 87 now been there for a few days . fish are doing ok clowns fine copperband has a few specks on fin ., but is calm eating and swimming
picking on rocks. i'm feeding bloodworms soaked in selcon and i'll switch back and forth to garlic.
any ideas? thanks in advance

 

[cayars]

Changing the temperature in itself isn't going to help you out. It will only effect the cycle of the parasite. It will not reduce the number of parasites but only change the cycle.

You need to pull the fish and treat them properly.

 

[vaquer0]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8669518#post8669518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cayars
Changing the temperature in itself isn't going to help you out. It will only effect the cycle of the parasite. It will not reduce the number of parasites but only change the cycle.

You need to pull the fish and treat them properly.

change the cycle ... please explain...

 

[vaquer0]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8669518#post8669518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cayars
Changing the temperature in itself isn't going to help you out. It will only effect the cycle of the parasite. It will not reduce the number of parasites but only change the cycle.

You need to pull the fish and treat them properly.

I found what i was looking for, also using no sick fish:

Probably the easiest treatment in indoor systems
for Warmwater species is to raise. the water temperature
to 85°F for three weeks. Since Ich is a coolwatcr
protozoan, raising the temperature will kill the freeswimming
forms before they have a chance to
reinfect the fish.
A second method to mechanically treat fish
applies to raceway culture or pond culture, where
infected fish can be removed and placed in a raceway.
This treatment involves increasing the flow
rates as high as possible while still permitting the fish
maintain their position in the raceway. The increased
flow flushes away the free-swimming forms before
they have a chance to settle to the bottom and attach.

 

[cayars]

Nope on neither for Marine (salt water) Ich. Running your tank at 85% for three weeks will probably kill your fish for lack of oxygen in the water. It would be very hard to "blow away" the parasites in an enclosed system like an aquarium.

No sick fish doesn't work very well. To treat ich you need to pull the fish and put them in QT. Let the display tank be fallow (without fish) for 30-45 days. Then treat the fish in QT tanks with copper, hypo or use the tank to tank transfer method. These are the only ways of getting rid of the parasite.

There are tons of threads on ich here in the forums. Go into the decease forum and look at the stickies.