is this normal?
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Dana
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Try to get your fish into another tank with less salinity, at this point shocking her is no worse than ich which will def kill her.
Then turn the heat up in your tank slowly to like 86 or so and vacuum the gravel daily to get rid of ich in the tank.
Hope your fish makes it! Good luck
Then turn the heat up in your tank slowly to like 86 or so and vacuum the gravel daily to get rid of ich in the tank.
Hope your fish makes it! Good luck
Dana
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You can even go up higher if you want, but if you leave your fish in the tank you need to do it 1 degree per hour and monitor your fish. Some fish can take the heat some can't.
"It has been found that Ich does not infect new fish at 29.4°C/85°F (Johnson, 1976), stops reproducing at 30°C/86°F (Dr. Nick St. Erne, DVM, pers. comm.), and dies at 89(Meyer, 1984)"
As you can see, if you were to hold your temperature at 30°C/86°F the parasite would no longer reproduce and when the remaining parasites in the tank reached the end of their life cycle, that would be it.
If you continued on up to 32°C/89.5°F you could actually kill the parasite which would yield faster results.
"It has been found that Ich does not infect new fish at 29.4°C/85°F (Johnson, 1976), stops reproducing at 30°C/86°F (Dr. Nick St. Erne, DVM, pers. comm.), and dies at 89(Meyer, 1984)"
As you can see, if you were to hold your temperature at 30°C/86°F the parasite would no longer reproduce and when the remaining parasites in the tank reached the end of their life cycle, that would be it.
If you continued on up to 32°C/89.5°F you could actually kill the parasite which would yield faster results.
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reeftankgirl13
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Sadly to say marlin died this morning and took the porcelain throne to his grave. If I turn the heat up to 89F would this hurt my snails a hermit and star polyps? I want to rid this disease so I can get a fish that will live so tired of flushing 
Seavee1218
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Get some chromes and let them help cycle the tank if u have nitrites and sorry for ur loss!! I've had my clown paired for 3 years and they went through everything ! And still very healthy thank god !
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fragmatic
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You should solve the problem first. You just lost two of the heartiest fish we can get out hands on.
Seavee1218
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Well I've never had this identical problem I figure that if we just go back to the basics maybe it will help idk any opinion will help in this situation is how I figure it
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fragmatic
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PERFECT ! yes..
Dana
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Sadly to say marlin died this morning and took the porcelain throne to his grave. If I turn the heat up to 89F would this hurt my snails a hermit and star polyps? I want to rid this disease so I can get a fish that will live so tired of flushing
I can't say 100% but at this point you have iCh in the tank and cannot have fish until you get rid if it, I know for sure that copper treating will do harm to your inverts so prolly best stay away from that unless you can move them. I don't think the heat will kill them but again, I'm no expert...
Sorry to hear about your fish -(
Dana
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You don't have to Krank it to 89, now that your fish is gone you arent in any hurry to kill it off quickly, just turn the heat up to 85 or so and the iCh won't be able to reproduce and will die off slow
Dana
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The other thing about copper is even if you move your inverts to another tank, and treat the infected tank, now you have copper in there and is almost impossible to get rid of. And of course now you really don't want to put inverts in that tank. Copper dosing is to keep fish alive in a qt tank IMO and never for a main tank. Use heat and clean your sand, iCh thrives in your sand bed.
Mike J.
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About five years ago I had a yellow tang infect my tank with ich, I turned the heat up to 86 degrees for three weeks and didn't lose any other livestock. One thing to consider is nitrites are poisonous to fish, the same as ammonia. Don't put any other fish in until your nitrites are 0.
