Ich in large tank

[Vess]

Hi guys and Girls.

I hope some of you more knowledgeable fish keepers could give me a little advice. I have been keeping fish now for just under a year and obviously still have a lot to learn, so please bare with me if I bore you with anything basic

I have a 280L Osaka community set up that has been running without issue for around a 10 months. It contains the following:

10 Neon Tetras
4 Julii Cory
1 Bronze Cory
4 Upside down cat fish
7 Harlquin Rasbora
2 Kribensis
1 Molly
2 Red coral Platy
3 Bumble Bee Platy
1 Algae Eater
5 Glowlight tetra
4 Female Guppy
1 Armoured Shrimp
Assassin Snails

Water is kept at 77 degrees, PH is 7, Ammonia Nitrate and Nitrite all nil.

I appreciate it may be getting a little full, but it will be thinned some when I finish cycling an 85l Fluval in the spare room, plus I do a 25% water change every week.

Now to the question.

My Red coral Platy seem to have caught Ich, not a huge case as of yet and it doesn't seem to have affected them or the other fish as of now. However obviously I want to get this treated before it can escalate. Hence the problem.

With such a large tank what is the best way to treat? I am not a big fan of chemicals as such and was wondering if Salt and high temp would be ok? Are the above fish capable of tolerating 82-86 degrees? or salt for that matter?
Will my shrimp survive the treatment (its awesome ).

I know Ich is nothing new to discuss and I am sorry for asking again, its just I have read so much contradicting stuff especially when it comes to bigger tanks..

Hope you can help and thank you in advance..


Lee

 

[xarumitzu]

I personally think the best thing for you to do, if you can, is out the platys in a separate tank with a heater and filter (without carbon) and treat them. I don't know what the best things to treat ich are so I'll leave that to someone more knowledgeable. But, I have a quarantine tank I can set up if my fish get sick. Treating a perfectly healthy fish for something it doesn't have I know can be stressful to them.

 

[CoNMaN]

I hate the idea of extra chemicals, but when I had outbreaks of Ich in my community tanks, it was always on a Platy or Tetra. And I would use the copper treatment medicine that turned your water blue for a bit, with a 2 degree increase. With this combo my loaches or puffers never got it (touch* wood), and all fish survived.