While treating planted tank for fish with ich, how often should I be doing partial water changes?

[Stefanie O'Dell]

I’m treating my 36g for ich. All the fish show varying degrees of it. I added an air stone to the mix due to raising temp to a steady 86’f
Questions: do I continue to dose with ferts?
Do I still run CO2 during treatment?
How often should I be doing small water changes?
I’m using the herbal treatment. Don’t want to lose snails and plants to other meds or salt.
Thank you.
I do believe the Threadfin rainbows I recently purchased and had shipped in and not QT’d, were the culprits.
I am in the process of buying a 40g as my QT tank.
And that brings up one more question; should I leave the floor bare? Plants? Snails? Fish??
How do you set up a qt tank?

 

[the loach]

Is that the Herbtana herbal treatment? That works very well against ich, I have used it. It does not affect nitrifying bacteria. You do the water changes as you would normally do, and mix the daily dose of fertilizer and Herbtana with the new water, so it gets spread out nicely over the tank.

A quarantine tank is simple: bare bottom. Some plants make the fish feel more at home, but some medications are detrimental to plants so use some excess clippings if you must.

 

[Stefanie O'Dell]

Is that the Herbtana herbal treatment? That works very well against ich, I have used it. It does not affect nitrifying bacteria. You do the water changes as you would normally do, and mix the daily dose of fertilizer and Herbtana with the new water, so it gets spread out nicely over the tank.

A quarantine tank is simple: bare bottom. Some plants make the fish feel more at home, but some medications are detrimental to plants so use some excess clippings if you must.

I’m using the Kordon Ich Attack

 

[FreshyFresh]

I would increase the water temp to the highest the fish will tolerate, increase aeration, and do large daily water changes, not small ones. If you can gravel vac during the process, that's good too.

 

[fishorama]

I've never tried "herbal" ich remedies but Joel said it best. You want to vacuum out as much of the "in the gravel" stage as often as you can, daily is best. Higher heat will help speed up the ich lifecycle but to really kill by heat alone you need to have the temp higher than most fish or plants can handle.

Good luck, & continue treatment for 10-14 days.