I have a black molly with ich and unfortunately I don't have another tank and unable to buy one due to financial issues. So far its isn't bad the molly doesn't seem too disturbed, not even with other fish, he still eats. He is in a 60 gallon tank with 15+ fish, who don't seem to have ich I have already raised the temperature to 82 degrees and applied aquarium salt. Now I want to know if this is a good solution? If it is that the treatment cycle take longer? Or do I need the extra tank? Also how often do you have to do water change when treating ich I do it every 10 to 12 days general? And how often do you apply aquarium salt? I can't get a photo because I have a bad camera on my phone and he moves a lot.
You can use regular table salt, even iodized. The harder part is doing water changes & getting the salt dosage back to full strength. I'm not sure of the salt dosage but you can look it up here on AC or google it.
If you know the dosage for you 60g tank (say it's 6 tablespoons, again look it up!) then if you remove 50% you'd need to add 3 TBSPs. OR if you only remove 30% then you'd add 2 TBSPs...like that...But (third time, look it up!!) you'll need to continue salt dosing until the fish has been ich spot clear for 10-14 days (look hard!). Then you want to do small water changes to remove the salt gradually. The more often you vac, the less ich will be in the water column to reinfect the fish.
Luckily livebearers are more salt tolerant than some species. Except that fry can be trickier, you should be able to treat them all successfully. Good luck!
If you know the dosage for you 60g tank (say it's 6 tablespoons, again look it up!) then if you remove 50% you'd need to add 3 TBSPs. OR if you only remove 30% then you'd add 2 TBSPs...like that...But (third time, look it up!!) you'll need to continue salt dosing until the fish has been ich spot clear for 10-14 days (look hard!). Then you want to do small water changes to remove the salt gradually. The more often you vac, the less ich will be in the water column to reinfect the fish.
Luckily livebearers are more salt tolerant than some species. Except that fry can be trickier, you should be able to treat them all successfully. Good luck!
The key is how much salt do you use and what other fish are in the tank? Too little salt does nothing... if there are salt sensitive fish you have to build the level up slowly. You want 3 grams per gallon to kill the tomites, more is better if the fish can take it.
When I look up this information will the effect and measurement be the same with aquarium salt or is it less affective.
ok had to look up grams to tablespoons to see if that made sense to me or if I wasn't crazy of that been a lot. Thank you
