Best ich medicine

[thekarens]

It's been a long time since I had fish with ich and back then they were salt fish.

Anyway, I brought home some angels this weekend and I noticed today that one of them has ich.

I've cranked up the heat and tomorrow I'm going to pick up some meds. I have sand, swords, snails, pleco and fish in there.

What meds are the best for my tank?

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[SunnyHouTX]

Get some AP Quick Cure from Wal-Mart. IMO, this is the best treatment for Ich.

[johnnymisty]

Get some AP Quick Cure from Wal-Mart. IMO, this is the best treatment for Ich.

Beat me to it..... that stuff worked great for me and didn't harm my loaches

[supadave]

Heat and table salt has been my best solution for Ich.

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[thekarens]

Though I'm normally a fan of natural methods in this case I'd rather be safe than sorry and use the meds.

I did crank up the heat, but the salt wouldn't be great on my snails or plants.

Looks like the quick cure will kill snails too. Hope the plants survive :(

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[mistahoo]

Though I'm normally a fan of natural methods in this case I'd rather be safe than sorry and use the meds.

I did crank up the heat, but the salt wouldn't be great on my snails or plants.

Looks like the quick cure will kill snails too. Hope the plants survive :(

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Yup. Heat and salt doesn't work too well with plants or snails. They have a low tolerance of salt. Even some plecos and catfish are sensitive to increased salinity. You can move the snails to another tank while you're treating the tank.

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[imagirlgeek]

Kordon Ich Attack. It's an herbal med. You can get it most anywhere.

Best stuff I've used. Saved a bunch of little South American puffers that were so infected they looked like little cotton balls. And you know puffers are really sensitive to meds.

[aquabee]

There's a resistant strain of ich going around for the past year. I found it was resistant to salting as well as Kordon Ich Attack, which is normally awesome. Only thing it responded to was copper-based meds. Had to remove all the snails though.

[Darbex]

I like high temps and uv sterilizer. And Formalin in severe cases