add salt for sick fish... ???

[cybersymes]

the guy at the lfs...who i trust...
said to add salt to dago red's tank...
[full sad story on another thread]...
one teaspoon per 10 liters...

what do you all think ... ???

would it be ok for the 16 baby platties in there ... ??? ...
[they are about 5 weeks old...3/4 of an inch long]...

[tank is 3gallon [imp]...no carbon...small piece of polyfilter]

 

[Limi310]

Here I am again......Just wanted to say the aquarium salt would be fine for the platy's so you don't need to worry about that - Just don't know if it would help Dago.

 

[TLH]

Yes.Livebearers appreciate some salt.You can go to 1 for every 5 litres if you like.Just make sure it's proper tonic/aquarium salt and not table salt.That contains anti-caking agents and tuff you don't want.

What's wrong with the fish?

 

[Pure]

Find my thoughts on salt and it's use in a "FRESH" water tank here : http://badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article22.html

 

[geekrockgirl85]

pure- i always felt that was the case, but didn't have the serious scientific know-how to back it up. thanks for the link.

aquarium salt in a fw setup just seems.... silly.

 

[Pure]

It can help detoxify nitrites, and cure ich (mixed with high heat). But IMO real medication works 100 times better.

 

[cybersymes]

Find my thoughts on salt and it's use in a "FRESH" water tank here : http://badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article22.html

wow...there's a link...
that's my question answered... cheers.

 

[cybersymes]

Here I am again......Just wanted to say the aquarium salt would be fine for the platy's so you don't need to worry about that - Just don't know if it would help Dago.

hey hey...thanks for that...
i think dago may be too far gone...

i didn't know about 'aquarium' salt...
i do now... cheers .

 

[cybersymes]

Yes.Livebearers appreciate some salt.You can go to 1 for every 5 litres if you like.Just make sure it's proper tonic/aquarium salt and not table salt.That contains anti-caking agents and stuff you don't want.

What's wrong with the fish?

didn't know about the special salt...thanks for letting me know...

as for my fighter...
he got beaten up by a dwarf gourami...
and he's in a bad way...

full story on the 'betta close to death' thread...
[not a happy read].

 

[TLH]

Something else may be better for wounds than salt.
I mostly use it for fungus and mold outbreaks.My Mollies would sometimes get white patches and a teaspoon or two of salt always cleared it up.

 

[cybersymes]

Something else may be better for wounds than salt.
I mostly use it for fungus and mold outbreaks.My Mollies would sometimes get white patches and a teaspoon or two of salt always cleared it up.

chears dude...i think salt would not have helped...

 

[Jayrod7]

You add aq salt for livebearers. im not sure about other fish though

 

[cybersymes]

You add aq salt for livebearers. im not sure about other fish though

check out the link Pure posted... and you may reconsider...

http://badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article22.html

 

[echoofformless]

Salt does have antiseptic/antifungal/antibacterial properties, but that doesn't mean it should be in a fw aquarium. There are other ways to handle the situations without introducing it.

As for its ich destroying uses, I'm taking that with a grain of the stuff. Truth is that method always calls for an increase of heat - and ich is said to die in heat above 86 degrees F. It could be the heat after all.