i have a 45 gallon tank with a coral beauty, vlorik wrasse, scooter blenny, toby puffer and neon dottyback. the tank has had ick for awhile now the fish are all healthy just the occasional flashing that i really dont want to see anymore, i do have corals in my tank one torch coral, a duncan, and a hammer if i raise the tank temp to 84-86 and leave it like this for a couple weeks so the ich cant reproduce and eventually die off will everything in my tank be fine, or will my corals end up dieing
will this work to get rid of ich in my tank?
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Couldn't tell you about the corals, but the fish aren't healthy if they have ich, do you have a QT tank? I would recommend hyposalinity to kill it off, there are some members on here with experience dealing with ich. I am sure they can give you some better details, I just know that hyposalinity is a sure thing.
Raising the temp does nothing to the parasite in SW. Read these links
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Quarantine Tank for Everything by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part I by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part II by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Quarantine Tank for Everything by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part I by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part II by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
I put all my fish in to my qt tank and left my Main tank for just over 6 weeks because I was told if theres no host the parasites carnt live. Put my fish back in about a month or two ago and haven't seen any signs of it yet fingers crossed. Not sure on your corals because I'm fish only
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ich is a fish only parasite and you were correct in your treatment but when you put the fish in qt did you do the hyposalinity treatment?
i dont have a hospital tank unfortuantly, the fish i have in their now have been living with ich for about 4 months i know your right their not actually "healthy" but their all very active eating fine, i treat their food with garlic and vitamin C every night, i got to get a hospital tank set up soon i know i wish i had the money
