We recently got the ick in our tank... i read up on in and decided that the salt treatment i found would be the cheapest and easiest. We have a 40 gal tank. We took 80 percent of the water out of the tank, then only filled the tank to 30 galons so the water falling from the filters would cause more surface agitation to add more oxygen to the water instead of soley relying on the air pump to provide oxygen. Then over the course of two days raised the temp to 92 degrees and added 1 tbsp of aquarium salt per galon. Reduction of the ick was apparent before we finished adding salt and raiseing the temp. On the third day we turned off the light on the tank for 2 days. When we turned it back on the ick was not visible. We kept the risen temp and salt state of the water for an additional three days then did almost a complete water change and cleaned the rocks with a syphon. Over the 3 days after the water change we reduced the heat gradually back down to 80 and we have been ick free ever since.
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we cleaned the filters thuroughly everday and two of our apple snails out of 5 didnt survive. We have Multiple cichlilds, an oscar, two upsidedown catfish, a blue dragon gobi and two plecos |