Bichir Oscar electric blue acara, there’s a African tiger scat in there right now too temporarily, but he is in there now.
I might not be understanding you 2 tbsp per 2 gallons is the same at 1:1….
Are these flukes on his fin?
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I might not be understanding you 2 tbsp per 2 gallons is the same at 1:1….
As long as you don’t have scaleless fish I’d start slowly and ramp up to 2tbsp per 2 gallons. I’ve safely treated with 1tbsp per gallon for a few weeks with no apparent stress on the fish.
I’ve only treated with salt once before, for my bass tank, I had added the salt after a water change by the next change the bass were fine so I don’t retreat. I added the salt just now 1 tbsp to 3g ratio. After the water change if not vacuuming the substrate I have to retreat the water removed or not?
You will want to keep the concentration approx the same for a couple of weeks, replacing salt w water changes. This disrupts the pathogenic lifecycle at all ages. After a few weeks just do your water changes as normal and the salt will gradually dilute out of the tank.
When I treat with salt, for things like ick, or larval Lernaea, I use the weight method,
which is at least 3 lbs of salt for every 100 gallons of tank water, and brings salinity up to 3 ppt (parts per thousand).
I preferably like a sality of 3.5 ppt., for my Central American cichlids. They can usually handle much more.
Unless that salinity is reached (and its osmotic pressure), most ick or other commmon aquarium parasites, just laugh it off and go on reproducing.
For my 300 gal system, that means dumping in at least 9 lbs of table salt, rock salt, of water softener salt.
One of the reasons I use the weight method, is whatever the grain size is, 3 lbs per 100 gallons reaches that 3 ppt salinity.
which is at least 3 lbs of salt for every 100 gallons of tank water, and brings salinity up to 3 ppt (parts per thousand).
I preferably like a sality of 3.5 ppt., for my Central American cichlids. They can usually handle much more.
Unless that salinity is reached (and its osmotic pressure), most ick or other commmon aquarium parasites, just laugh it off and go on reproducing.
For my 300 gal system, that means dumping in at least 9 lbs of table salt, rock salt, of water softener salt.
One of the reasons I use the weight method, is whatever the grain size is, 3 lbs per 100 gallons reaches that 3 ppt salinity.
