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Does anyone know how high I can raise the temp if golden dojos are in the tank...I believe my clown loaches have ich and need to treat tank...it has been at 78 F

Usually with ick, you need the temp to be 84 AT LEAST. The clowns would be fine with this, but I am not sure about the dojos. Do you have a quarantine tank?

Make sure if you have a hang on the back filter to drop the water in your tank by 1-2 inches, so there's lots of splashing and extra oxygen in the water during treatment.

Treating in a ten gallon treatment tank will be cheaper than treating the tank, but all your fish have probably been infected, so you will need to treat the entire tank.

Make sure you vacuum the gravel really well to remove the free swimming ick. I would change at least 25%-30% of the water a day at least and vacuum 1/4 to 1/2 the tank each time you change water.

I raised the temp to 80F and I began treatment with Kordon's "Ich Attack"...which is "100% natural"...contains naphthoquinone. I saw only a few white dots, only on the clowns. Hope this will work. Ever heard of it? I did a 25% water change to begin with...the directions state water changes are not necessary until end of treatment, but I do plan to continue every few days. I read also at another site reference to a Micron or Diatom filter..." because swarming tomites are approximately 30 microns in size a good diatom filter will reduce the numbor of free-swimming tomites to nothing...use it daily and clean the filter cartridge with hot or boiling water between daily uses"...have you heard of this type of material?