ick outbreak

[soleil1980]

hi

I have an ick outbreak   My tank is a 60g with guppies and one bushynose.  All parameters are normal.  I started treating yesterday with salt and temp raise.  However, I cannot find conclusive info on how much salt to add!  How much do you guys add?  So far, I have added 12 tbs of aqurium salt and raised the temp to 80.  All fish seem to be ok.  I lost 4 males guppy but no female loss.

[charlie]

I have  in the past used 1 tablespoon per 10 Gallon & slowly raise the temp to 86 deg.with a gravel vac a few times per week -caution when changing water only add salt ( 10 gallons per tablespoon) to the amount of water you are replacing.
Regards

[charlie]

BTW if you have plants, they don`t tolerate salt.

[soleil1980]

and once I don`t see white spots anymore I comtinue treatment for about 3 days (that`s what I read)

[soleil1980]

hi

So now I have added 8 tbs of salt to my 60g and upped the temp to about 30C.  It has been runing like that for 2 days and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.  The weird thing though is that I lost 5 male guppies... all the females seem happy.  Do you think I should continue treatment or go to the lfs and grab ick medecine?

[Shawn84]

Go grab some Kordon Ick if salt and heat is not working.