Ich breakout-help treatment

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It looks like my tank inhabitants are battling ich. I coul've contracted it 15 days ago from a stock of discus that I bough at lfs. In any case, the discus seem to be ok as I don't see any salt spots on them. I got 10 rummy noses and they seem to have the salt spots on. At first, I though that maybe these were water bubbles, but now it looks more like salt. I couldn't get a count of one of them two days ago and I couldn't find him. Now today, I see two dead and one of them with the head missing. I assume another fish bit it off.

I see the spots on my clown loaches as well.

My current temperature is 85-86F.

What treatment should I use. (discus, zebra danios, congo tetras, cardinals, rummy noses, oto cats-lost couple(could be temperature rise), 1 bushynose placo, clown loaches).

Thanks.
 
for clown loaches you must use a treatment specifically made for scaleless fish, a well stocked fish store will have this next to the regular treatment

clowns can get ich very easily, act fast

treat your sick fish in a seperate tank if possible, clowns in a seperate tank even

if you must treat all at once,
remove carbon/chemical filtration
use the clown treatment

then treat again as prescribed by directions, if you don't see signs of improvement
 
At that tempature, if it is ich, it will die off shortly, ich can't tolerate warm tempatures like that, so it should just die off shortly. Adding medication to a discus tank is kinda risky, they are sesitive to chemicals. At 85-86 though the ich shouldn't last long. One pair of the rams I had got it shortly after I got them, temp was at 80, I raised it to 85 and it was gone in about a day. I'd suggest doing a water change as well. Chemcial treatments work great granted, but they stress your fish, anything you can do without changing whats in the water I think is a much better option, IE natural treatments.
 
The high temp doesn't really kill the ich, it just speeds up the life cycle of it. Generally if you have the high heat already you add aquarium salt. The salt kills the ich when it is in the free swimming stage and the heat speeds up the hatching of the eggs. I believe it is 1 tsp per 5 gallons of water slowly dissolved over a period of time (dissolve it in water outside of the tank and add to tank). Treat for 2 weeks (?) after the last sign of ich.

I know that cories are sensitive to salt but can withstand this treatment. Not sure about clowns though.
 
yeah

high temp shorten its life span once it fall from the fish it is a cyst which will burst open n release tomites which have roughly 48 hrs to find a host this is when they are vulnerable to meds - if they can find something to host on they will die continue meds for 3 days or so after you cant see the salt spots
 
From my own experience I don't agree with the statement that 85 is on the cuspe of killing ich off. I have had great success with tempatures of 81-82, usually within 2-3 days its completely gone from the fish. Again this is my personal experience, and this was without adding salt to the water.
 
I wouldn't move any of them from the tank. Ich is so contagious, you might as well treat the whole tank. Steralize anything you use between tanks, nets and etc.
 
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