Most bacteria can not survive at a higher temp that's one of the pros of higher water temp faster growth and less chance of bacteria, for example when you treat ich you should always up your temp early before it reaches another stage
Ich is a parasite and the increased temp makes its life cycle quicker. The salt makes it unable to breed. The reason you raise the temp is so that it grows from egg to cyst to adult faster and then you use salt to keep it from making more.Most bacteria can not survive at a higher temp that's one of the pros of higher water temp faster growth and less chance of bacteria, for example when you treat ich you should always up your temp early before it reaches another stage
Oh! Thats scary, but at least you caught it. Extra air is a good thing in hospital tanks, if you have a HOB filter on it you can lower the water level to get even more DO.Well, this has been a day.... first thing this morning when I went to see how my girl was doing, OMG! She was hovering on her side in the middle of the tank. The second thing I realized is that the tank water was warm to the touch. My thermometer in the tank read 80 but when I put another in the water, it read 84, 86........ what the heck??? My Eihem heater was set too high. Don't know how that happened.... so I turned it down and THEN realized that I had no aerator going in the tank!!! What the hell was I thinking when I set this tank up???!! I damn near killed her..... so I put an air stone in. Tonight she looks better.... not listing onto her side.... her eye unfortunately looks no better. Ugh.
I would switch to just the methylene blue. Do a 75-90% water change and then begin treatments.Ok, I bought the Methyline Blue. Now do I treat along WITH salt and Melafix or just the Methyline Blue itself?