TREATING ICK THE NATURAL WAY 

Of course it was you who introduced me to upping the heat in my tank to treat and even cure ich. Also to understand that it's basically lurking all the time ... Waiting to jump on another host or to take over a weak host, just waiting for a fish's immune system to go down and take over. Weakening the fish and rendering it hard to fight It off with their own strength. One of the reasons it makes so much sense to me is because of dogs..believe it or not..... take mange for instance, there are two different types, there's red mange called sarcoptic mange.. and in people it's called The "scabies"... Red mange is typically a little microscopic bug that attacks a dog, it's literally a parasite that travels from host to host,.. Then you have demodectic mange which is a naturally occurring parasite that dogs have living on their bodies from birth and when their immune system goes down it takes over much the same way as ich.. I hope that made sense because I have a hard time getting out of my brain what I'm trying to say 🤣🤣🤣 Before you I would have bought medicines and done all that jazz, I'm not saying that that's the wrong approach I'm just saying that temperature can make a huge and successful impact on treating ich without ruining your tank. You know I watch a lot of channels but there's just something about how you explain things that clicks with me, it's scientific and common Sense mixed together!! Being vigilant and aware of your fish and their behaviors and the way they interact with our tanks is the key! Thanks for another great video Father Fish much love my friend 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚

The heat works great!!! My fish lost his white spots OVER NIGHT!!! Thx you father fish!!!!

How in the world does this video not have more views already?

Just added 10 dwarf neon rainbows to my community tank and noticed 3 of the new fish have 1-3 spot on them. I instantly pulled up this video and brushed up on my treatment tactics. My 55 gallon tank is full of plant and fish, prolly 50+ nano fish(if you consider dwarf neon rainbows nano fish). Thank you Father fish for all your help, I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to help us all!!!

Wow I’m really impressed by this no-nonsense solution that defaults to a natural remedy. God has an amazing ability to provide the solution to any natural problem. Very cool. I’m new to this hobby and I’m surprised how much more ‘involved’ it is versus my initial preconceived notions. Enjoying the heck out of your videos. I don’t see anyone explaining things like you do. Great job. I wonder if the younger generations have enough patience to actually listen to your wisdom and aren’t already skipping ahead or to the next video. I pray they do! Regards to you 😊

Day 1 of treating ick with heat! Thank you for providing a natural way to help my fish ❤

Exactly what I was looking for. I have live plants I'm attempting not to kill 😂 Just upped the heat a tad more and going to get fresh garlic this evening. Here's to happier fish a few days. 🤞🏼 As always, great information and explanation.

Thank you Father Fish , i got rid of ick in 4 days , i raised temperature at 30C and it worked ,i am so glad i didn't used any chemicals :)

I wanted to say thank you for the video, you helped save my fish for certain death.

I just want to stay I really enjoy your videos. They are full of helpful info. Anytime I run into something new that I don't know or understand I look up your videos. Thank you very much for all you do

You are soooo awesome to care enough to create these time consuming videos and educational tips! No one else does this sir! Blessings!!😊 Thanks 😊😊

Saw 2 spots on my rainbow fish and started to freak out , found your vid, raised the temp and increased the surface agitation for better o2 , will update soon , thank you 😊

Absolutely true!Although had only keeping 3 gold fish but had them for about 10 years now. Im blessed to learn about power of plants from my grandma and every sickness with my fish I I was able to combat with garlic juice and alder cones. I have NEVER used any shop bought treatments!

I tried the garlic and the heat, and it worked-no drugs needed! My house smelled like Boulibaise, though 😆

You just saved me from putting aquarium salt in my heavily substrates planted aquarium. Thank you so much!!!!!!

I wish my dad would have had access to this information in the early 90s. Sadly, he lost his big established Oscars to Ick (he thinks it's from feeding feeder goldfish). If those Oscars would've lived, I might have seen them in my life lol. Thanks for this info; it makes me dread Ick a lot less! ☺

I have used the garlic method of helping my fish I took the garlic crunched it up and mixed in the food then fed it to the fish. Good stuff

Thank you for this video. My albino Oscar had ich and we thought she was a goner, after 5 days with this temperature & salt treatment she's back to a normal, spot free, hungry, healthy fish. ❤

This is a great video thank you! More than a decade ago I had discus that came with a couple ich spots. The tank was heavily planted with clown loaches, a bristle nose pleco, oto cats and 2 siamenses. Non of the available medications or salt was safe for this set up and remembered doing heat treatment for a week which worked perfectly, lost no fish or plants and I never saw it again. I finally set up a new planted tank this summer after a decade of renovations and moving, and got a batch of congo tetras which I noticed ich on the next morning. I was in a panic as this tank was also already fully cycled, heavily planted and has bamboo shrimp, snails and twig catfish. My house is tiny so no room for quarentine tanks. I couldn't seem to find the old article on heat treatment for ich I'd used originally, and that was before RU-vid became such a big DIY site. So greatful to find your videos with specifications for degree changes, duration of heat and feeding a bit of garlic. It's a 75 gl tank so I had to get an additional heater to get the temp up. It has a slightly undersized eheim canister filter but 2 agitators to help move water around. I also added 2 air stones just to really keep the oxygen levels up. I'm on day 4 of 31 C and everything in the tank is alive and well although very hungry and active with such a warm temperature. I got frozen blood worms and baby brine shrimp just to feed them extra well and do a small slow water change before bed just too keep things a bit cleaner. The tank never showed any ammonia, nitrite or nitrate even while cycling. It has 3 to 6 inches of substrate starting with soil, then 1 inch flourite and gravel to cap. I packed it with plants right away and used generous amounts of fish food for a month plus liquid plant fertilizer made from composted seaweed and the plants took off! I had found my best tanks were set up this way, so have also enjoyed watching your planted tank videos for details and explanations as to why this system works so well. In any case, there's been no signs of ich for a day and a half so I'm thinking of starting to lower the temperature tonight a degree and then again in the morning. It's a bit hard changing tank parameters as I'm at work all day and don't want to do anything major to get home 9 hours later to chaos. But I also don't want to keep the temperature this high for 6 days which is the next day off I have.

This vid is all u need if u treating ick! Great sharing FF

Good stuff 👌🏼 Cured ick a couple times. But still learnt a few new things here 🤓

My fish had this I used heat and garlic in juice and fed to fish and it killed this I never lost any fish and their fine!

Thank you for your instructions as I have ich in my 30 gallon.

Another great informative video, thanks

Great video, and easy to follow. My tank has a case of ick and I have lost over half my fish. I’m hoping I can save the few I have left. I bumped the temp to 83 initially but I’m going to gradually bump it up to 86 today.

I've got my first outbreak of ich. Been fish keeping for 3 years. Im glad it's only in my 70 litre betta tank than my 350 litre community tank. I have put in salt (but only half the recommendation because it's a planted tank) and raised the temperature to at least 30 degrees. I also added some garlic that the fish loved. I'll let you guys know the outcome.

That you so much Father Fish!! ❤

Thank you father fish. Great informative video. 👍

I confirm, garlic helps, fish like it, especially guppies and mollys. I have other question, how to treet other parasites like nematodes, flagellates, flukes ?

[thank, you father fish for another interesting video]🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for all of your information

My 2 prettiest fish look like that Oscar 😢 I'm trying to treat with Seachem Paraguard but I'm fighting a losing battle. 😢 I raised the heater to 83 degrees Farenheit and I put the Paraguard in every 24 hours. I came home from a 4 day vacation and my fish were covered in ich. My tank has what appears to be a bacteria bloom as well. I have a 2 ottos and a large tetra and a 2 year old yoyo loach. I added an airstone last night. I also have 2 cherry barbs and it is a 20 gallon high freshwater tank.

what about fish that cannot tolerate that heat level, such as darters, minnows and bluegills?

Thanks for all your information

This saved my Neon Tetras , heat and garlic as you suggested, thank you.😊

Thank you so much for sharing, so helpful and it all makes perfect sense.

Salutations and thank you very much for your wisdom! 😊

86° that ich!

Great information thank you for doing this video 👍👍

Thank u for ur vid I’m trying the garlic and the fish love it I hope it works

Thanks for this video. Please could you do another update video on ich/ick as this one has a really painful piercing noise in the background.👍

Thank you so much! My fish would all be dead without you! Are you saying to never feed fish while in a hospital tank or never to feed them in their regular tank while temps are raised? My poor fish have this nasty parasite, so im raising temps now and have garlic ready. I have guppies, mollies and lepord danios. Unfortunately, they came from STUPID petsmart, as that is all we have here. I will be ordering online for now on. I really appreciate your videos!

Full of wisdom! Thanks

what medication or natural cure do you use for parasites in betta fish ? My male placket betta fish has clamped fins and I suspect internal parasites .. would love to help him. His tank is father fish approved.

Best way by far

I sure hope this works for me! Thank you so much!

My tank has been at 87 for 3 days and my glass knife fish still has spots. Some have disappeared but new ones have appeared too. Any advice?

My green neon tetra’s currently have random white spots on them. Not a ton and mostly on the fins. I’ve had the temp up for about 50 hours now and they are still there. No more but no less either. Temp is at 87.

Ive been having an ick bloom on my tetras. Seems this fish is really prone to it. As before they arrived, my tank never had any issues such as this. Ive been keeping at the heat treatment for the past 5 days. Its improving. Not as quickly as id like but improving. Save for 1 tetra with 2-4 spots left and the otto cats that caught it right after the heat treatment began.

Thank you for your video ! Changing water todat and starting with temperature boost and hopfully wont have to go wth salt !

Greetings FF, I have an ich problem that just came from nowhere, I added fish about 9 days ago and just now the ich started to show. I think they must be dormant for more that 4 days. My temp was set at 79 the entire time

Thank You

As always, great info!

Planted aquarium I put hitter 24 digere so battre

Good video I’ll watch more

I just rescued a betta that was covered in ich at Petco in Glendale,CA. She was covered in ice like the Oscar you showed and said probably didn’t survive. I got lucky I guess, because after medicinal treatment, the ich was gone in a few days. I also raised the temp and did 25% water changes every other day (and replaced the amount of medicine each time proportionate to what was lost with the 25% change). I’m just disgusted that Petco doesn’t take care of their bettas. She was sitting in a small cup with feces and food and surrounded by dead bettas. I took pics, emailed corporate Petco, and they gave me some generic response. Something needs to be done already. I am sick of Petco and Petsmart abusing bettas

TQ❤...KERJA DENGAN SEMPURNA.PERFECTO! TQ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Methylene blue has brought back fish from the brink of death for me that works super well As father fish said dosing it directly to your tank will mess up the life support systems of an aquarium, so it’s best to remove the fish and treat it in a separate tank

[thank, you for this info]👍👍

Ps: Im going to get garlic in the morning and thank you in advance even if the answer is no. Im srill grateful

Do you have a video on water temperature? Thanks

This guy @father fish is the Albert Einstein of the aquatic world thank you for this follow-up in detail for your original ich video god bless

I failed to save my neon tetra, they are having ich for 5 days, i increased the water temperature to 33c and add in 1 crush garlic clove for treatment, now i only have 4 neon tetra left in my 14 liter small tank, before that i have 8 neon tetra , but my red cheery shrimp are doing fine

Always value your knowledge. My first battle happening now after seeing white spots on my rummy nose tetras. I have live plants, otos, cory doras, Brusselnose, otos, mollies and shrimp. The tank has reached 83 slowly climbing. My concern is my Brusselnose, I've heard they will not live past 82, he is my oldest and favorite boy in this tank. Do you think he will be okay that high of temperature?

How do you treat skin and gill flukes in goldfish

Why is there information online saying 86 degrees stops replication, but doesn’t actually kill the Ich. 89.7 degrees is what I am hearing is the needed temp to actually kill the Ich. I am also hearing others say 88 degrees kills the Ich. So many people tossing around different numbers. Father fish, what are your thoughts?

For the hospital tank, after the fish is done using it, do I empty out and rebleach it or clean it regularly? Can I apply the antibiotic before the tablespoon salt treatment? Hope in the name of Lord Jesus I may properly take care of his creatures he bless in my life.

Good new video ff

Thank u soo.kuch my 2 inch shark has got ich 😢 ill try the solution

My black tetras have white dots. I suspect it’s ick. Upped the temperature to 30 degrees celcius juz now. Juz praying my fish can take it. I have raw garlic. Shall do a mince. I hope my green neon tetras, white cloud minnows, and black tetras will be fine pls.. if they recover I’m gonna add ember tetras.

Always use an air stone. Increase heat to 87 degrees F. 1/8 cup of salt per gallon in a hospital tank after 2 days increase salt by another 1/8 or 1/16. If this does not work light your house on fire. Ps. Dont burn your house down. Probably just treat the fish in a hospital tank with an air stone. DO NOT FEED YOUR FISH IN THE HOSPITAL TANK

The treatment I got the blue stuff ! It says warning causes cancer not even may cause cancer 😮

Years ago when I was into salt water tanks I was told that I ick is in every salt water tank laying dormant waiting for a weaker fish with a low ammune system to attach to. Not sure if there is any truth to this.

Quick question...can you use the garlic in a jar pre chopped or should you only use freshly chopped garlic?

Cool video!

How much of a qater change should i do after the 3 day treatment of 87 degree water? How long should i continue to do the water changes to make sure the ick is totally remoced from tank?

What about increasing tannins. Throwing in some almond leaves maybe?

[I, have, been sharing all of you're videos with friends]

Might 86 degrees kill some aquatic plants in the tank? So should they be removed before raising the temperature. Like bucephelandra and some other aquatic plants?

Father fish, I have goldfish with white spots and red spots . I’m doing the 87 degree heater now. They had a partial response to doxycycline and metronidazole. But both failed. Any thoughts?

Does the heat treatment work for gill flukes too? Some of my fish are flashing against plants.

I have a 20 gallon with a couple corydoras, African dwarf frogs and mollies. One of the mollies has ich. Is this method still safe ?

thanks tonnes ff in a critical time

I have three kuhli loaches and two dojo loaches. One of my dojos has a few spots I’ve noticed. Will the others be okay if I turn up the heat?

It's been many years (knock on wood) since I have had to deal with ick and I knew about the temp trick but I had no idea it needed to be raised THAT high. Other than the depletion of Oxygen, are there any other potential negatives to watch out for when jacking the temp up over 86.4°? Can cold water fish even survive in water that warm for a week?

This work on freshwater as well?

I’ve been following your recommendations on the dirted tank idea. I have a 20 gallon tank with plants covering the bottom and some Pothos growing into the water column. Idk took out my whole fish colony as I didn’t catch it quick enough. I did a water change and noticed one lone fish still alive appeared during the water change. He has since passed. I added a water heater and it has been running officially 3 days at 86 degrees. Today I have small almost microscopic white worms in the water column and on the glass. These worms are moving around. Besides continuing heat treatment can I do anything else since the tank is planted?

I’ve been at 86 degrees for 3 days. Lost one fish yesterday :( and see more spots on another today. I bought a 10 gallon medical tank. I’m thinking about setting it up with sponge filter, heater, and transferring fish. Then treating with chemicals or salt. The hard part will be keeping water parameters right. I could do a water change in my main tank and use that water in the hospital tank, but then the salt would just kill the beneficial bacteria. Should I put a light on the hospital tank, or keep it dark? Thank you FF

If the heater and salt doesn’t work, I’m gonna cry. I love my fish they make me smile everyday. I have set the heater and the temp is at ~ 87°F I look everyday to see if my catfish loses those spots but nothing yet. He’s a big fish. Pray for me and my fish everyone 🙏 🐠

How much of the clove do you suggest for a 20 gallon. I have a tank of endlers that has got ich. I just got them from someone on kijiji and they were already infested.

Can the heating method be used for cold water species?

Im interested to try this and avoid chemicals, but worried about confusing it with epistylis which high temps will increase? Ive looked at so many pictures but cant tell which my fish have

So I have a question? After ich treatment should I change out the mechanical media in my canister filters of the affected tank?

Spotted two of my cardinal's with one white spot each, iv just upped the temp to 30 degrees C and upper the air in the air stone. This is night one, will update in a couple of days. When should I start dropping the temp? And how much should I reduce it daily to get back to 25 degrees? (That's what my 160L tank has been set on) My tank is only 4/5 weeks old.

Will raising the TEMP(86), hurt the live plants?

Ick is the poor cousin of aquarium fish diseases, imo. I mean is a disease treated by heater. Let's just say that during summer when the water in my tank has sit at around 31 - 33 degrees Celsius (88-89 Fahrenheit) I was not exactly concern about ick outbrake. Note: there is a lot of usefull in your video as always:) In my tanks I use the "heat treatment" all the time. I don't use salt because I have a large population of corydoras and I have heard that they would not react good to salt (there is no way in hell I would do anything to threaten the wellbeing of my precious group of 10 adolfoi coryes, lol). Also, if you are like me (i just love my fish) and you cannot resist not looking at them at least once a day, there is no way you won't spot those white....spots, as soon as they appear :P

Hello i have a question. I have a jack Dempsey. He still showing sign heavy breathing. After the ick clear up. i have added foot long air stone for oxygen.. other fish seem to be clear for ick few day ago. I had use heat up 76 for 5 day and lower back down 81 for two day and i used salt ever other day to 50 percent water change..so what else i can do for lower his breathing down.

I just have one question, what if a fish still has left some white spots on the fins, after 3 days of heat treatment, do i still keep my water temperature untill it is completely gone, or i can lower it down to normal, because i can see that ich is not progresing any more and i can see that spots are weaker day by day. Thank you

Sir do i feed fish or not during 3 days with 86f, if not when to start feeding again?

My Oscar has very large white spots, is this still ich? Or could it be something else? The spots look like indentions.