Ich Cure

The basic idea of all of this is that ich has a one week life cycle, cannot spread to new fish at temperatures of 86 or higher, and dies outright at 89 degrees.  We were very conservative in treating because we were about to go on a week-plus vacation and wanted to make sure we eradicated the ich before we left.  This solution can be implemented using only heat and water changes.  It's important to monitor the level of oxygen due to the higher temperatures, so watch for hard breathing.  We also experienced higher levels of aggression, so keep an eye out for injured fish that may need to be separated from others (have to separate them within the tank so you don't risk spreading ich to other tanks).

10.31.2011
Detected ich on red top zebra
Added 7tbsp aquarium salt
Ran diatomic filter
Heat up to 86 degrees

11.3.2011
70% water change
Heat up to 87

11.4.2011
Added melafix, pimafix to try to mitigate infection resulting from higher aggression and some missing scales, fin nipping -- this was a mistake because this coated the fishs' gills and combined with the high temperature, caused evident difficulty breathing within an hour.  Immediately changed water (60%) when noticed.
Heat to 86
Second 60% water change in the evening
Heat to 87, 300W heater added to enable higher temperatures for next steps

11.6.2011
60% water change
Heat to 89 for the day (we were home to observe them and make sure they were ok at this temperature, but it was no problem)
Heat to 86 in the evening

11.9.2011
Temperature to 84

11.10.2011
Temperature to 82

11.11.2011
Temperature to 80

After the ich fell off the infected fish, it did not reemerge.