View Full Version : salt and plecos don't mix
phene4grene420
06-02-2005, 12:58 PM
when i first got into the fish keeping hobby i had bought a jaguar catfish. two days later i added 2 figure 8 puffers, which are brakkish....so i added a little bit of salt to my tank, not knowing that you can't have plecos in a tank with salt :swear:
phene4grene420
06-02-2005, 12:59 PM
hit the wrong button.....but yea......day by day i could see the skin flaking away, eventuallyt it croaked. no pun intended (jags croak)
hemptation88
06-02-2005, 1:06 PM
are u serious. i have 2 plecos and i add salt in my tank to keep my fish healthier. Maybe they can take a little salt??
cenecker
06-02-2005, 1:42 PM
Really? I know plecos don't really like salt but I had a tank get Ich really bad, I added so much salt the specific gravity was 1.006, and the pleco survived just fine.
piranha45
06-02-2005, 1:46 PM
phene4grene420, what specie was your pleco?
phene4grene420
06-02-2005, 5:51 PM
phene4grene420, what specie was your pleco?
jaguar catfish.....looked like it's skin was 'chapped', flaking off everywhere. and i didn't put too much salt in, i'm not sure how much to be exact....but i know it wasn't alot.
rayman45
06-02-2005, 5:53 PM
:newbie: mistakes
we all made them
hemptation88
06-02-2005, 5:55 PM
the only thing that looks wrong w/ my pleco is that its nose or watever it is comes out. kinda looks demented.I see it w/ all my fish. maybe i shuld stop using salt altogether
phene4grene420
06-02-2005, 10:19 PM
it's cuz plecos dont have scales, i dunno what you'd call it, flesh? lol.
tigerfish
06-02-2005, 10:26 PM
dont use to much salt,also let your water sit in 5 gal buckets for a few days. to kill the ich :welcome: