High temps

[lawrence]

Hello To all,
I have ich in my 135 reef. I have done the usual garlic etc. It seems to come and go on one fish only I am hopeful to get this into check. If i do what and how long do I have to see no signs of it to feel some safety to add new fish? I will qt 1st for 10 days. I wasx told that temps of 90 will be to much for the ich to survive is this true? I was told that this could be a threat to all live fish and inverts. I was told that it was done and this man had no deaths other thjan the ich Does anyone else know or have expirience with this 90 temp Cure???
Thanx Lawrence

 

[ctgretzky9]

Never heard of the "90 degree cure" at all.
I used "kick-ich" in my tank for the 13 (or 15? i forget) day cycle and it worked perfectly. And on any boards i have gone to, others have used it with great success as well. I only had soft corals at the time, so i dont know how hard corals will react if at all, and dont remeber if others had hard crals though i assume so. But everything else in the tank was fine-i have anemones and inverts up the yin yang and everything was fine.
QT works, but the only problem is that ich has a swimming stage that can still be in your main tank and live up to a week or so. So watch the main tank if you decide to qt instead.
I have heard mixed reveiws about hypo salinity...some people said it works, others said it wiped out their invert population.
Good luck

 

[robchuck]

There is less oxygen in the water as temperatures get warmer. I would think that your fish would stress from limited O2, which would make their ich worse. Plus, 90* water for any prolonged period would likely stress inverts to death.

 

[jjlittle]

I wouldn't try it that could be detrimental to all living things in your tank there is no way I would try that method. Get QT tank and treat fish seprately with dosing the QT tank only.

 

[ophiura]

I wouldn't do it :nope: How long did this person suggest leaving it at this temperature???

 

[scoobydoo]

Originally Posted by ctgretzky9
Never heard of the "90 degree cure" at all.
I have heard mixed reveiws about hypo salinity...some people said it works, others said it wiped out their invert population.
Good luck

O, I'm surprised you didn't :jumping: on this!
Anyway, hypo works with fish only in qt but your inverts, corals and lr will not survive the low salinity.

 

[ophiura]

Oh, you definitely don't want to do a hypo in your main tank. The parasite is an invert, so of course lowering the salinity will kill off nearly any invert in the tank. I prefer not treating a main tank with anything. I do believe the best course is to use hypo in a QT tank.
Have you pondered why you are having the outbreak as well?

 

[lawrence]

Originally Posted by ophiura
I wouldn't do it :nope: How long did this person suggest leaving it at this temperature???
I was told 3 days at 90-92 I was told from reliable source I also would put extra air in water but my guy did not and had no losses

 

[ctgretzky9]

Originally Posted by lawrence
I was told 3 days at 90-92 I was told from reliable source I also would put extra air in water but my guy did not and had no losses
3 days would not be sufficient to treat ich in any form. Ich has a parasitic stage and a swimming stage, the complete cycle can take up to a week or more. While on the fish, ich is basically "safe". Most treatments target the swimming stage of ich.

 

[ophiura]

Did this guy actually have corals and inverts, or only fish?
There are plenty of cases where people do things against the advice of others, and are "fine." Its funny, the one's where people aren't fine don't get much play. People have had unintentional temp spikes in their tanks, and it does some damage. I wouldn't do it personally, since there are known better and safer alternatives. You've got a lot of experience on this board saying "wow, never heard of that and wouldn't do it..."
It is somewhat more common to do in a freshwater system (raise temp, add salt to effectively make it a bit of a hypo situation...though that is a different bug than in saltwater).

 

[ctgretzky9]

Originally Posted by scoobydoo
O, I'm surprised you didn't :jumping: on this!
Anyway, hypo works with fish only in qt but your inverts, corals and lr will not survive the low salinity.
I did jump on it when the person posted that their inverts were wiped out lol...He or she was under the assumption that you treat the whole tank. They learned lol