Ich

[Bobby56]

Can I cure ich in my girlfriends tank by just raising the temp to like 86-88 for a couple weeks?

 

[jcolon]

I cured ich in my son's 10gal with just temps of 88 F .... it's best you add an air-stone or ensure you have plenty of surface movement as warmer water holds less oxygen. PWC's and gravel vacs will be critical in helping to remove the parasites.

I left the temp at 88 F for one week AFTER I saw the last sign of ich ... just to ensure you eradicate it thoroughly. In all took just under two weeks.

 

[Bobby56]

K thanks. It has an airstone and I also dropped the water level to create more surface agitation

 

[LyndaB]

Can I cure ich in my girlfriends tank by just raising the temp to like 86-88 for a couple weeks?

You'll have to do gravel vacs every 2-3 days to remove the ich spore.

What fish are in the tank and what size tank?

 

[Bobby56]

Its a 10gal with 5 guppy, 4 danios(glofish)

 

[LyndaB]

Where did the ich come from? Are any of those fish new? Is the tank cycled?

 

[Bobby56]

Not really sure. The tank is cycled. No new fish, nothing new has been introduced into the tank

 

[Bobby56]

This is the first time I have had anything like this happen. Should I take out the infected fish? And would that speed up getting rid of the ich?

 

[LyndaB]

No, once you see ich on one fish, you must treat the entire tank as if every fish has ich. That's how quickly it spreads.

 

[Bobby56]

So what do you think caused the ich?

 

[Bobby56]

And will these temps hurt my fish?

 

[LyndaB]

No, just raise the temp slowly, I don't raise it more than 3 degrees per day.

 

[Bobby56]

OK raising slowly. Do u know what might have caused it?

 

[LyndaB]

If it's not from introducing something new to the tank, it's quite often caused by stress, like poor water conditions.

 

[Bobby56]

Yeah it was a fish in cycles so that's probably it

 

[LyndaB]

That is definitely it.

Is the tank cycled now? If not, expect it to take longer to cure the ich.

 

[Bobby56]

Yeah tank is cycled