Heat, Ick, Plants, CO2

Redneck Woman

Redneck Woman

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A couple of my fish are showing signs of ick. I have read that heat alone can kill ick so I have slowly started raising my water temperature.
I need advice on my plants. If I raise the temperature up to 88-90 should I take off my CO2? Everything I have read says to add a airstone so wouldn't that defeat the purpose of CO2? I will add salt if there are no signs of improvement but I wanted to try heat first.
I truly believe the ick came from a plant, it's the only thing I have added in the last couple of weeks.
Any help would be appreciated. All my plants have done so great thanks to the advice here. I don't want to kill them or my fish.
 
I don't believe heat alone will kill ich, it just speeds up their life cycle and allows them to reproduce quicker. Used in combination with salt treatment it can eliminate the ich since it is only suseptible to salt in the beginning of it's life cycle. Not sure if you need to shut off your co2 or not though.
 
Thank you for the quick replies. I will add salt. My temperature stays at 82 all the time so I don't have to long to wait for the change.
Some people say 1 tsp per gallon and some say 2 which one is it using aquarium salt?
 
I just did mine, did 2 tsp per gallon... my fish came thru it well, but I did remove my plants. I did not have what you have, but I worried for them there for I moved them to a new tank. I did not raise the temp, my heater would not allow that. so its set to 80 but my fish show no more signs of ick, and we are on day 5 of treatment. I also did ick attack.
 
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