Cleaning tank

[sweetpickles7]

What should i do with a tank that had fish in it that had ich?Please help,its for the fish.

 

[nealio]

Glass tank
Use a 10%-30% bleach to water mixture and wash it out really good after your done. Make sure you use a bit extra of the dechlor water conditioner before you add fish, but I would cycle the tank before adding more fish.

Acrylic Tanks
You can use bleach, but its not recommended. I would use a much lower water to bleach ratio if you do it.

 

[Fishywishy]

ummm....... you don't want to put bleach in with the fish.

You want to kill the ich cycle by adding salt and raising temp, clean the tank as normal during treatment (vacuum gravel..add water treatment etc)

(there's a million places to lookup how much salt and what temp)

if all your fish died from ich and you were cleaning out the tank before beginning again......then use bleach

 

[nealio]

LOL I totally read that wrong... yes you do not want to put bleach in it with fish. With a title like "Cleaning tank" I thought you wanted to clean the actual tank, not treat the fish. srry I REALLY hope you didn't dose your tank with bleach.

*crazysmil


I recommend CopperSafe

Here is a link:

Aquarium Fish Medications: CopperSafe

I think its a better alternative to the salt treatment, but still raise the temp of the water.

 

[JWright]

Ich meds depend on the contents of the tank. Copper is more dangerous to sensitive fish than salt, IME (both will kill inverts however, so be sure to take any snails, etc out before treatment).

 

[nealio]

yeah salt and snails don't get along :X

 

[Big Vine]

For what it's worth, I just wanted to add that salt treatments up to 3 tablespoons per 5 gallons have been completely safe with my crayfish.

BV

 

[sweetpickles7]

Okay thanks and, My fish had babies.little swordtails

 

[bigredspecial]

they'll be fine. I've used salt treatment with Blue rams, catfish(scaleless), loaches(scaleless), guppy fry, and several types of shrimp. Swordtails are very hardy; they'll be fine.