Plants and ICK question..

[Mad Professor]

All my fish are dead and my plants slowly dying.


My last fish died some where around saturday and monday. I've been running the temps at 86-95F for this whole week. How long before I can move the plants to another tank with life without infecting it with ick?

 

[Zezmo]

If all your fish are dead. Then lower the temperature to 74-82. IMO wait 3-5 weeks for all the ich to die due to lack of hosts. In general, the ich exists on the fish, in the water collumn, and in the substrate.

 

[Sicklid]

Temps of 95 will kill the plants. It should be okay to put fish in there, as I don't think the ick will have survived those temps either. I am a believer that ick is present all the time in most fish, but does not get a hold of them till they are stressed.

 

[gu2high]

If leave the tank without fish for 4 weeks, even at normal temperature, all ich will die as Zezmo said.

 

[Mad Professor]

I don't think you understand.

10 gallon
No fish
low lighting
no supplements/fertilizer
ick

GO!

 

[rkilling1]

A week at those temps should have killed the Ich, but if you don't want to chance spreading it to another tank I would buy some ferts and add them to the tank. This way you can lower the temps back down to help the plants and not risk spreading the Ich.