Treating Tiger Barbs with ich

[TheWeirdo]

Hi guys. I am new to this forum but not as new to fishkeeping. I know about the nitrogen cycle, all my tanks are fully cycled and I have treated ich in the past, but with Mollys and dwarf corydoras (no fatalities). It was easy, heat and salt destroyed ich.
However I am new to Tiger Barbs and I can not find any good information on treating them.
This is my current situation:
Tank size: 36 gal
Stocking: 8 Tiger Barbs, 5 Mollys. (No, no agression, the tiger barbs keep to themselves)
Water parameters: I dont know, I dont have acess to test kits. They should be good tho, I do weekly water changes and all the fish are doing fine, I transfered cycled media from an established tank of mine and the tank has been running for 2 weeks or a little bit more without problems.

Now, here are my questions. Does anyone have experience with heat on tiger barbs? The information is confusive and a guy that has had tiger barbs in the past told me to look for something else than heat. I decided to follow his instructions and I did not raise it up to 30 Celsius. But I did raise it up to about 27-28. It has been about a day since that.
I know a lot of people swear that salt will work, and it worked with my mollys and dwarf corydoras, so I am guessing it will work too for tiger barbs right?

My Tiger Barbs are by no means on the verge of death, it has only been a day since I saw the disease and they are far from being covered by it, however they do have some spots that look exactly how my Mollys looked when they got ich. They have been fed homemade food for a while now (I have had them for about a month as they were in QT, but apparently my QT was a joke lol) right now I just made another bunch of food which consists of a lot of veggies (for the Mollys which seem to enjoy the fiber, the barbs like it too but I dont think they need it as much) mainly spinach, peas, carrots and garlic with fresh fish (your average fish fillet) so I guess the highly nutritious food has been helping them. I just want to make sure that they can handle the salt, I am kind of sure they can but I just want to be reassured haha.
Thanks for all the help you are able to provide.

 

[Rbishop]

heat and salt....same as before...heat speeds up the cycle...you can keep it lower but I'd raise it as normal.

 

[TheWeirdo]

heat and salt....same as before...heat speeds up the cycle...you can keep it lower but I'd raise it as normal.

Have you had experience treating tiger barbs? Also, what dosage do you use? The salt I has says to use two tablespoons per 10 gallons while some people on the internet are telling me to use a teaspoon per gallon. Which would be roughly 3 tablespoons per 10 gallons.
I find it hard to believe that 30 Celsius would kill tiger barbs but I dont feel like testing, most forums I could find stated that they lost some tiger barbs with the heat. Altough I dont know if it was because of the heat, a lot of people give their fish poor food, poor water and poor oxygenation which may be the cause.
I can oxygenate the water really well if I want, I have an airstone a power head and cascade filter, so maybe I should push the heat to 30 Celsius.

 

[Rbishop]

I start with one then increase to 2 teaspoons per gallon of common table salt. A fish stressed with ich isn't necessarily killed because of the heat. Any fish can be in that mode. More O2 is always good during this time. I have treated most every common FW fish with this method over 30+ years. Ich always gets worse before it gets better.

 

[TheWeirdo]

Ok, thanks, I guess I am gonna follow what I did and go heat/salt, If I see any signs of stress then I will just back the heat up, get the salt out of there and look for another alternative
Hopefully I dont have to do that lol.
Oh, and by the way, I have Amazon Swords and Ludwigia Repens so we will see how they fare against salt.