I got a new Dat 10 days ago, and he has been looking very good (if pretty shy). I got a couple of clown loaches at the same time and they started very strong, but one died while I was at work today. The other 2 seem to have small white dots on the ends of the fins and are looking very erratic (swimming upside down, etc). Nothing on the Dat (although he seems to be scratching more - I might be being paranoid), the small electric blue JD or the plecos in there.
I'm thinking ich, so I bump up the temp to about 85 and add salt. I looked up treatment for ich stickied on the disease page on MFK and it said to add 2 tsp per gallon. That's a lot of salt. I put in about 25 TBSP for my 75G tank, which is only half the amount recommended, but all the salt I had.
Now that I look on the Dat pages, I see people recommending 1tsp per 10G for similar symptoms.
Now i'm concerned that I put too much salt in, and am debating a big WC. But I still need to solve the original problem. Advice from some old pros would be greatly appreciated!!!
I'm thinking ich, so I bump up the temp to about 85 and add salt. I looked up treatment for ich stickied on the disease page on MFK and it said to add 2 tsp per gallon. That's a lot of salt. I put in about 25 TBSP for my 75G tank, which is only half the amount recommended, but all the salt I had.
Now that I look on the Dat pages, I see people recommending 1tsp per 10G for similar symptoms.
Now i'm concerned that I put too much salt in, and am debating a big WC. But I still need to solve the original problem. Advice from some old pros would be greatly appreciated!!!
but most of other fish died
