Temp? to get rid of ich

[johnnydaz]

I have tooken out my fish out of the main tank and put them in a quaratine tank. I want to know what the temperature should me in the main tank so I could get rid of the ich.

 

[jun_celis]

You don't get rid of ich with temperature!! Oh, you think you can fry 'em? From what I've researched, it takes time! It takes about 6 weeks with no fish in the maintank to get rid of ich. No vertibrates as fas as I know, not temperature.

 

[AJ69]

You can also run a UV.

 

[AllenFord_SC]

UV will have no effect unless the parasite is in the water column.

 

[jun_celis]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6720856#post6720856 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AJ69
You can also run a UV.

Once ich shows up, that means it has burrows its eggs to the substrate already to multifply in a later time. "it's too lat' do do speak. That is why QT is so important in getting rid of this parasite.

 

[johnnydaz]

My tank has been free of fish for two months. It only has coral and a few snails in it. I also have heard that in order for the parasite to servive it has to have a fish host. And it out them they will cycle themselves out. Is that true.

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Yes ich needs a host in order to survive. If your tank has gone fallow for 8 weeks, the ich should be gone

 

[Paintbug]

in FW you can kill the Ich with tempature. i have done it. i belive the magic number is 84Ã"šÃ‚ºF. when the Ich releases from the fish to mulitiply, the high temp. kills it. its hard on the fish though, as takes a week or two at that tempature. with SW i dont think it can be done. or i havent herd of anyone successfully doing it!

 

[besl]

Years ago thi shappened to me. I read that temp does help wipe them out so I ran my heaters at 90 degrees for one full month. When you are ready to restock add ONE fish and observe for at least 2 weeks before adding another. Frustrating when it happens, but you have to eradicate the buggers and then test to make sure they are truly gone.

 

[atkinsg]

Freshwater Ich and saltwater Ich are not the same thing, so a cure for one is not necessarily a cure for the other.

 

[Gobie]

Ich stays on the fish till its ready to multiply then they fall off and fall to the substrate, each speck that you saw on your fish multiply in a cell until it bursts and then these free swimming parasites emerge and start looking for a fish. They have a short life span in this stage. If you can keep your fish healthy enough to keep the parasites off of them, the parasites wonââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t be a problem. I think increasing the temperature does reduce the life span of the free swimming parasites, by increasing their metabolism also increasing the photo period does something to help. Maybe because the fish are moving around instead of sleeping in the rocks makes it harder for the parasites to attach. I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t know.

In my tank I always put fish with ich in the tank and never had a problem, the ich goes away by it self. Donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t ask me how. I have cleaner gobies and my fish are kept fat. I go through a lot of food. Healthy fish = no ich.

 

[jimbo045]

75-79 maybe that hi.