New Baby Girl Bettas and Ick Breakout

[Sgooosh]

Two fish died today, but they didn't have any ick on them. Not sure why?

maybe stress from temp

 

[Silencedogood]

That could be. Should I add any salt for treatment as well? Would that speed up getting rid of the ick?

 

[Sgooosh]

That could be. Should I add any salt for treatment as well? Would that speed up getting rid of the ick?

yes, and i also heard of garlic
but be careful with bettas. some meds like melafix are not for these types of fish with labryinths

 

[Essjay]

The only thing that will speed up getting rid of ich is heat. This makes the life cycle go faster so it reaches the stage where it can be killed faster.

 

[Silencedogood]

So I'll just keep doing the heat treatment for now. This is Day 5 with the heat treatment so hopefully things start to improve within the next couple of days.