Comment by Peter on October 7, 2013 at 8:20pm

Raise the temp to 86f and ur doing eerything u can.

Comment by Benny on October 7, 2013 at 8:51pm

Melafix. Blue bottle, yellow label.

Comment by Benny on October 7, 2013 at 8:54pm

Pimafix I'm sorry. API product

Comment by Robert Jango on October 9, 2013 at 1:58am

Raise the temp to 86 or higher and add ick treatment. Keep it that way for at least a week after the spots disappear to be sure its all gone.  I remember reading somewhere that most ick treatments have the same basic ingredients. I use Malachite Green.

Don't use salt with Silver Dollars

Comment by Jacob on October 9, 2013 at 6:56pm

iv found that a table spoon of aquarium salt per 5 gal  works better than the medication but granted salt dos not seem to agree with the plants so i just quarantine the plants for a couple of weeks and after a couple of water changes to bring the salinity down i return the plants to the main tank.

Comment by Robert Jango on October 9, 2013 at 8:49pm

Yeah, certain fish and just about all plants hate salt. Why pull out your plants to treat ick? It seems like a lot of trouble to me. Just about any medication will do the job. And if you read Peter's comment he claims that ick can be cured simply by raising the temperature.

Peter's right!

86F is the minimum though. I would go higher - the higher the better. And I think medication speeds up the process.

Comment by Vadik k on October 14, 2013 at 12:03pm

Comment by Vadik k on October 14, 2013 at 12:03pm

isnt 86f to hot for the fish

Comment by Benny on October 14, 2013 at 6:52pm

Wow 86 minimum!? With fish? Jeeze that seems high. I would def opt to quarantine the fish and not disturb the plants. Just my preference. Good luck with your treatment

Comment by Robert Jango on October 14, 2013 at 8:09pm

Its not too high. Tropical fish can take 86F with absolutely no problem.  Jim Carmark, who's made 30+ collecting trips to South and Central America, reports he's never seen baby Rams in water below 86F. I personally, have kept them outside in tanks with temps pushing 100F. It sounds crazy but I believe they actually thrived in this water. It became a soup of infusoria and algae, in which their survival rate (from eggs to babies) shot way up. They grew faster too - ready to take baby brine shrimp after just 3 days instead of the usual 6 or 7. 

Even sub-tropicals and temperate fish do better if exposed to seasonal extremes. If allowed to spend the winter under the ice, goldfish will breed in the Spring and then put on major growth under the summer sun. 

I still haven't brought my Guppies and Mollies inside. They purposely basked at the ponds surface in July when temps reached 90F+ and now they doing great in the low 50s.

I have a question Benny. You say you would quarantine the fish. But how would you cure the ick?

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