Heater advice

[aqua_guy]

I have been getting rid of the ich in my aquarium for about a week now. i used TetraMed and unfortunately 4 of my fishes died. My fishes are all cichlids. Though my four electric blue died, there has been no apparent sign of the ich in the remaining 18-20 cichlids. i have conducted a complete water change nd has decided to try the temperature method of curing the ich in case there are some ich remaining but so far i haven't seen white spots in the remaining fishes. I am maintaining the tank temperature at 32oC. I am just wondering if the temperature is just enough? The heater can't get the temperature higher because of the cold weather now. I dont know if i have to add another heater. My tank is a 50 gallon tank. Can you give me an advice on what heater to use and how to maintain a steady temp despite the cold weather.

 

[William]

What wattage is the heater you have now?

and even if you don't have visible signs of ich there could still be freefloating parasites just waiting to infect, so its a good idea to do the heattreatment since it removes ich from your tank forever [ unless you introduce a new souce of it, say.. a new fish thats infected ]


You are good to do the heattreatment, and if the tank temp isn't staying constantly above 86oF/30-31oC then its not doing any good.

So throw another heater or two in there, I would go 300watt.


IMHO, The standard need for a 10gal tank is 50watt, but I always go 100watt because winters for example. So in other words, go as big as you can afford

 

[aqua_guy]

Thanks. i will go and see what's the wattage of my heater. I think i will throw another heater in there.

 

[aqua_guy]

another question, if say there is one infected, can i be cured there and the ich dies forever?