Help ICK with aquatic frogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

I was just feeding my fish and I noticed that all of my baby swordtails have snowflakes covering them (pretty sure it is ICK)

After a closer inspection I noticed it on the tail of a guppy and all over another guppy and a platy. I added more salt and getting ready to turn up the temp but do not know how high since I have aquatic frogs in there also

I have a 55 gal tank

1 Pleco clown

2 Cory cats

4 Platys

1 baby Molly

8 Guppys (fancy all male)

lots of baby platies and baby swordtails

2 aquatic frogs that always hide so I can not check on them :(

I can go to the store tomorrow ( will the corys and the frogs survive the treatment though) but it is closed for tonight (except maybe walmart?) The babies are completely covered (suprised I did not notice earlier.........Need advice on how to make them survive the night without killing them by turning up the heat too high....it is currently only at 80 F

I clean my tank bi weekly. It reads 0 across the board for any toxins.. Bought a fish from petsmart 5 days ago (he has ICK but minor compared to the babies and he looked healthy when I bought him. PLease help

Answer 1

This is why you should have a tank to quarantine any new fish you buy.

Usually adding salt helps. I have added a cup of salt to ich ridden tanks and the next day the ich was gone.

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Good luck  

Answer 2

Ich can be tough.  Copper in most medicines can harm your frogs, try removing them if you can.

Salt can help, but ich is a water borne parasite which is vulnerable only when in larval form.  the ones on the fish fall in to the gravel and multiply.  Salt will not affect the ones already on the fish.

Turning up the temp causes the ich to progress faster - ideal when medicine or salt is in the tank; unfavorable when there is no medicine and it will only harm your fish more.

Best of luck!