I think I have ich, doin the right thing?

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Howdy, just overly concerned but I believe my fish have ich. I'm currently dosing Rid Ich+ as suggested, I raised water temperature to 85F from 82F and doing daily water changes of about 40%. I'm leaving lights off for most of the day. Anything else that I should be doing? I have lost 5 cardinal tetras, 2 otos and a blue ram to this stuff and I don't want my discus getting sick. They look ok for now but man.

Tanks is occupied by:
Discus: 2
Corys: 3
SAE: 2
Otos: 4
Clown Loaches: 2
Card. Tetras: 3
 
Do a water change. Get rid of the medicine. Do the salt treatment. The Discus will definately handle the high temps. If it was me, and I had a Discus tank, I'd raise the temperature to 90 degrees and use 2 teaspoons of salt per gallon. This should cure the ich in 7 days max. Also, the salt method has worked for me before, so I recommend with experience, and the medicine will become toxic to fish when you raise temperatures, so I'd recommend getting rid of the med and using salt.
HTH
 
i use the salt water treatment. when i first discovered ich in my tank, i was using prevent-ick and i thinkthat stuff was killing me more that it di the ich because it smelled horrid. so now i do the high temp and salt for about 7-14 days and im good.
 
for me i would say awuarium salt is the way to go.
i use docwells, but im sure other member can give their opinions on good products.
 
Yes, you can use rock salt. I use the rock salt for making ice cream just because I have a box and I am cheap. But it is the same old sodium chloride that is sold as canning salt, non-iodized table salt, and most expensively as aquarium salt.

I have used rock salt, canning salt, and non-iodized table salt and have had good results. Pay more for aquarium salt if you want the fish-related packaging.

the Morton's "rock salt" for ice cream has just a little bit of sand in it. I contacted them and they told me the sand is just sand but that is why it is not sold for consumption. You'll see a little bit of sand in the bottom of your cup whe you dissolve it. More pure salt won't have this, but it won't bother your fish.
 
Thank You!!!!! I had already done the water change to start getting rid of the quick cure but could not get the info on the salt. do i measure it differently because of the large size?
 
do i measure it differently because of the large size?
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Ideally you should weigh the larger grain size stuff, it isn't a requirement but it is much more accurate. smaller grain sizes come closer to average weights. I did the original tespoon calculations in the article with Mortons table salt and averaged weights over ten seperately measure teaspoons.
I use Mortons table salt as a rule, but we keep a good bit in the pantry so it's always handy when I'm quarantining fish.

The target range for salt is 5 ppt +/- a little bit or 500 MG/L ( I think I converted that correctly)
Dave
 
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