ick and temperature

[Pod]

I added a coral beauty angle to a tank
10 days later it had some ick
I upped the temp from 81 to 84 and added garlic
3 weeks later all ick is gone

Q: when should I lower the temp back to room temp of 80/81

Q2: Is 84 considered a high temp ?

[Steven Pro]

No, 84*F is not that high.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

do you have other fish?

[Balandar]

only garlic?

[jsn150]

raising the temp and the garlic alone worked ???

[Pod]

That is what I have read here I thought.
Increase temp and add garlic to food to combat ick.

I am not one to set up a hospital tank.
or tear apart my tank to catch a fish so...

But yes it worked, this time
It is a 46 gal with a clown who is fine

If 84 is not that high I may leave it as it is getting cold

Thanks

[SuperNerd]

Wow...and I just thought upping the temp and turning off the lights was all I could do.

Next time...garlic.

[JENnKerry]

84 is fine as long as it remains stable.

[GrayWhale]

Please look at the disease forum - The ich parasites periodically disappear from the infected host fish as a normal part of thier life cycle. They have dropped to the tank bottom and will later re-infest your fish. This would have happened with or without the garlic or increased temp. There have been many, many, many threads on this forum of folks reporting miraculous success with garlic, ginger and other miracle elixirs that "cured" ich in a matter of days or weeks, only to have the pestilence return in time. The biology of these little bastards is well understood, and several effective treatment regimens have been developed. If you have inverts you will need a hospital tank to treat the fish - killing the ich will kill the critters. Letting the tank remain fishless during treatment will starve the remaining parasites. Effective quarantine could have prevented this outbreak.

Sorry if this sounds like a lecture (it does, dosen't it), but there is so much misinformation circulating in this hobby its hard to sort fact from fiction. A scientific approach will solve your problem, folk remedies will not.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

it will come back....become "one to set up a hospital tank"
JMO

[boxfishpooalot]

Originally posted by Pod
I added a coral beauty angle to a tank
10 days later it had some ick
I upped the temp from 81 to 84 and added garlic
3 weeks later all ick is gone

Q: when should I lower the temp back to room temp of 80/81

Q2: Is 84 considered a high temp ?

84f is not that high but its borderline. My tank runs 81/82 all year round. With lots of fish

The oxygen saturation point is lowered slightly the higher the temp goes,fwiw. Bacteria are more productive at higher temps also. Corals and fish will grow faster, but require more food to survive because of body temp.