CiRXSi
Aquarium Advice Activist
A friend of mine has a 38 that has been up for 2-3 months. For the last two weeks he has been having a massive Ich issue. All he has left in the tank now that has survived is guppys, platys, and 1 or 2 peppered corys. The corys are still recovering, but everyone else is completely fine. He hasn't had carbon in there for a week due to treatments, and his heater isn't strong enough to get to 86 degrees. The possibility has arose of starting over. We're thinking of setting up a 10G QT, and using my water and media to start this tank. If the peppered's aren't clear yet, they'll go in a separate QT til they're clean. Then this weekend, we might rebuild his tank. He has read something about if there are no hosts available for 4 hours, than the Ich will die off. Is this correct? Has anyone else heard of this? If that is the case, we could just shut down his tank (no fish) for the weekend and all would be good. Or should we start over? If so, we'd again use some of my water/media to start, but what else would you guys suggest? Thanks for bearing with the long post.