Ich Issue.

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this but I recently have had an ich outbreak. This is my first time dealing with it. Alot of fish are effected and some are not, Should I just treat all the fish? I have the ones effected in a QT tank, I can't treat main tank because it has snails, shrimp and cories. Thanks!

 

I treated mine with snails/plants/shrimp with Paraguard. Seems ok.

 

If possible remove and treat all fishes. (if meds are safe for them)
There is high chance that all were affected. Ich takes some time to show on fishes.


For other creatures (snail shrimp and cories) on whom the meds cannot be used, raise the temperature of tank by 1~2 degree each day and go upto 86F/ 30C max. Keep it stable for 4-7 days.
Add airstone to increase surface agitation.
These will be helpful in avoiding the possible outvreak of ICH in them.


Also Gravel Vacc your main tank and QT tank daily. These action will remove any spores/cysts that may have dropped into substrate/bottom.

Also read the article on ICH in freshwater fish disease section. It helped me. It will help you.
Also I will agree with @georgelee as he jas experience using meds.

 

Okay I will start putting the fish in my QT Thanks a lot!

 

If your main tank has Ich you should treat the entire tank. Taking the infected ones out won’t save the others that don’t show signs of it.

Treat the tank and make it easy on yourself.

 

The heat method is very effective with ICH so I suggest you try that first before bringing in meds.
86F for two weeks and a gravel vac every other day if you can. Spores that fall off the fish end up in the substrate so removing and treating fish separately will not help you.

Add an airstone since warmer water has less amounts of dissolved O2.

 

I cured my fish of ich by doing a 25% water change then turning up the temp to 82 degrees. I added AQ salt and seachem stress guard and in one week it was all cleared up. Hope this helps!

 

if you treat the fish in your QT, but not in your main tank, then when you add the QT fish back to the main tank they will get ich again.

 

Okay, thanks everyone I've started to warm up my main tank

 

Just to make sure, is it really ich and not velvet by chance?