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Salt tends to irritate scaleless catfish, so it is best to use it sparingly and in smaller doses. I think your albino cory should do fine if you need to treat with salt/heat to kick the ich....
good luck and hope all goes well!
good luck and hope all goes well!
salt and heat is the best way to get rid of ich its much safer then useing ich meds to much salt is bad so keep it around 2-3tbs per 5 gallons and up the temp but once its gotten rid of the ich you need to stop useing salt or it can shut down there digeustive system the cheap salt you find at petsmart and other stores called aquarium salt does this faster so just use rock salt or anouther salt that doesn't have iodine in it but if you use normal table salt which has iodine in it then it will kill your cat
ALSO its important not to add salt to fast changeing the level of salt in your tank to much at one time will kill your fish and be sure dissolve it in water before you add it to the tank so when you do water changes add a little salt at a time
ALSO its important not to add salt to fast changeing the level of salt in your tank to much at one time will kill your fish and be sure dissolve it in water before you add it to the tank so when you do water changes add a little salt at a time
kunkira;1217682; said:
The salt and heat treatment is the best way to get rid of the ich parasite. The alternatives, such as malachite green, methylene blue, formalin, and sodium chlorite are all more stressful on your fish than salt. The key is to have a treatment that is more harmful to the parasites than it is to the fish. Cancer treatment is the same way. Chemotherapy is harmful to the patient, but kills the cancerous cells faster than the cancer or chemotherapy kills the patient.
Although cories in general are a bit salt sensitive it varies per species, on the other hand most do tolerate fairly high temps if the water is oxygenated well. This means you can use only 1 tsp/1 gallon and bump the temp to about 91F if you add a powerhead or an airstone or two, in most cases that will do the trick. Try to find out what species it is though. The Corydoras aeneus or bronze cory is one of the more common albinos sold and easily deals with the higher temps.