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NursePlaty · 05-31-2010, 03:18 PM

If your 55 gallon tank IS NOT cycled yet then I would empty it and scrub it down with soap. If IT IS cycled then I wouldnt wanted to recycle it so what I would do is turn up the heat and add salt to that also. Yes the home tank has ich floating round BUT it has no fish host and ich will die due to no fish host (except the ones that remain dormant along the floor). Suction the floor of both the main and quarantine tank. Turn up the temp to 90degrees if possible in both tanks to kill and speed up ich stages. Ich stop reproducing at 86 but die at 90. Let me know if you got any other questions.

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NursePlaty Queen Platy NursePlaty's Photo Gallery Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 932 Name: Annie Pham Location: Dallas Ft Worth, Texas Feedback: 1 / 100% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 266 Times Said "Thanks" 41 Times Was Thanked 186 Times in 180 Posts	Re: ICK on Goldfish If your 55 gallon tank IS NOT cycled yet then I would empty it and scrub it down with soap. If IT IS cycled then I wouldnt wanted to recycle it so what I would do is turn up the heat and add salt to that also. Yes the home tank has ich floating round BUT it has no fish host and ich will die due to no fish host (except the ones that remain dormant along the floor). Suction the floor of both the main and quarantine tank. Turn up the temp to 90degrees if possible in both tanks to kill and speed up ich stages. Ich stop reproducing at 86 but die at 90. Let me know if you got any other questions. __________________ 55gallon Light - 6500K CFL, 23wattsx5 5hr/day Substrate - Red Mexican Clay, Sphagnum Peat moss, Eco-Complete Misc- Pressurized CO2, EI Dose KNO3, KH2PO4, CSM-B Plants -Limnophila Aromatica, Stargrass, Dwarf Hair Grass, Christmas Moss, Baby Tears (HM), Dwarf Baby Tears(HC), Rotala Rotundifolia, Ludwigia Glandulosa, Riccia Fluitans