Curing ick

For my ick I used Aquarium Salt by Jungle and let the temp. stay at
80, I used a small platic ziploc with a few holes and clamped it to
the side of the tank and let it slowly dissipate in the water. The
inverts and neons haven't seemed to mind and they're all doing fine
with the temp the way it is. I haven't had an outbreak yet.





"Gottcha" wrote in message ...
I recently had an ick outbreak in my tank and was wondering. If i add kick
ick do i need to take my activated carbon out of my filter? I was told that
it will remove all medications from the water.

"Gottcha" wrote in message
...
I recently had an ick outbreak in my tank and was wondering. If i add
kick
ick do i need to take my activated carbon out of my filter? I was told
that
it will remove all medications from the water.

I had a similar experience. I had some ick in the tank, started treatment
and got nowhere. The ick just got worse. Then I heard about the carbon, took
it out, re treated and it went away almost immedietely. Now it is possible
that it would have gone anyway, but without evidence to the contrary, I now
believe that removing the carbon is best.

Boosting the water temprature during the med treatments
also helps. Seems the parasite goes through it's stages faster
in the 80 temps and kills more of them.





Dr5000

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"Paul Cassidy" wrote in message
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"Gottcha" wrote in message
...
I recently had an ick outbreak in my tank and was wondering. If i add
kick
ick do i need to take my activated carbon out of my filter? I was told
that
it will remove all medications from the water.

I had a similar experience. I had some ick in the tank, started treatment
and got nowhere. The ick just got worse. Then I heard about the carbon,
took
it out, re treated and it went away almost immedietely. Now it is possible
that it would have gone anyway, but without evidence to the contrary, I
now
believe that removing the carbon is best.

I've had sucess with taking a fish and droping him into fresh water for 2 or
3 seconds. The different gravity pops the ick where the fish can be
re-introduced back into the tank. I havn't had any loss of stock by doing
this, you hvae to be careful not to leave ur fish in the freshwater too
long though.. they get stressed over it..
Good Luck
"Jbutterflie" wrote in message
om...
For my ick I used Aquarium Salt by Jungle and let the temp. stay at
80, I used a small platic ziploc with a few holes and clamped it to
the side of the tank and let it slowly dissipate in the water. The
inverts and neons haven't seemed to mind and they're all doing fine
with the temp the way it is. I haven't had an outbreak yet.





"Gottcha" wrote in message
...
I recently had an ick outbreak in my tank and was wondering. If i add
kick
ick do i need to take my activated carbon out of my filter? I was told
that
it will remove all medications from the water.

"Uncle Sam" wrote in message
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I've had sucess with taking a fish and droping him into fresh water for 2
or
3 seconds. The different gravity pops the ick where the fish can be
re-introduced back into the tank. I havn't had any loss of stock by doing
this, you hvae to be careful not to leave ur fish in the freshwater too
long though.. they get stressed over it..

Didn't you just take them out of fresh water?

Jeff82


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Jeff wrote:
"Uncle Sam" wrote in message
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I've had sucess with taking a fish and droping him into fresh water for 2

or

3 seconds. The different gravity pops the ick where the fish can be
re-introduced back into the tank. I havn't had any loss of stock by doing
this, you hvae to be careful not to leave ur fish in the freshwater too
long though.. they get stressed over it..


Didn't you just take them out of fresh water?

Unless it was a marine with white spot...

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Paul Nolan
Veni veni venias - ne me mori facias!

I had some ick in the tank, started treatment and got nowhere. The ick just got worse. Then I heard about the carbon, took it out, re advised and it went abroad about immedietely. Now it is possible that it would accept gone anyway, but after affirmation to the contrary, I now believe that removing the carbon is best.