What should I do if it happened?

[A.G]

Hi every one,
I will be adding fish by the next week and am sure they will get ICH(as they all do) .What should I do if it happend?what treatment would you guys recommnded that is safe to add to the main tank with out EFFECTING the biological filter AND plants.
Some folks says that even if you QT you`re fish sooner or later they will get it and there wont be any space for all of them to treat accept the main tank.

 

[semper fi]

qt the new fish for three weeks. ich takes about 2 for the symptons to start showing on the fish. ifyou set up the qt tank with water from the main tank after the qt period you can just add the fish.

ich survives in cooler temps. tht is why ich is more predominant in the winter months. keep your tank temp at 72 or higher. ich cannot survive in warmer temps.

what else is in the tank?

 

[BettaBoyz]

wait, are you expecting your fish to get Ick from absolutely nothing at all? are these the first fish in the tank?

i find the easiest way to treat Ick is salt (two tablespoons per 10g of table salt is fine) and a high temperature around 79*, which is what most tropical fish like anyway. meds mess up your filter, which is precisely why i didn't get any. Firefly spread Ick all around the tank, it died in three days after i added salt.

oh, and if Kuhliis are the 'delicate, salt-hating fish' try and explain this to mine, they ate the salt

 

[juliethegr8t]

oh, and if Kuhliis are the 'delicate, salt-hating fish' try and explain this to mine, they ate the salt

*Dies laughing*

 

[FishHeads]

oh, and if Kuhliis are the 'delicate, salt-hating fish' try and explain this to mine, they ate the salt

*Dies laughing*

Damn the salt-eaters, lol. Goldfish are said to be salt-haters too....But Neo (my giant Black and orange comet) 'rolls' in the salt I add to his tank and then chases after the cloud as it rolls down to the gravel. I think he's a bit 'slow'.

 

[CFC]

i find the easiest way to treat Ick is salt (two tablespoons per 10g of table salt is fine) and a high temperature around 79*, which is what most tropical fish like anyway. meds mess up your filter, which is precisely why i didn't get any. Firefly spread Ick all around the tank, it died in three days after i added salt.

oh, and if Kuhliis are the 'delicate, salt-hating fish' try and explain this to mine, they ate the salt

While salt can be used as a ICH cure with some fish many will react badly to it, amazonian and scaleless species in particular do not tloerate salt being added to their water. Also 79 is not a preffered long term temperature for tropical fish, that is THE MAXIMUM temperature that most fish will tolerate well,while raising the temperature to speed up the life cycle of parasites is benefitial fish should not be kept at these higher temperatures for more than a couple of weeks, a temperature of 74 to 75 is much more prefferable for the majority of tropical fish.

Please be more careful when dishing out advise, do what you like with your own fish but dont put other peoples at risk with potentialy bad information.