When you say long term you mean keep the dosage until bloat is gone ???
Datinoides polota bloat
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I would keep it for 7-10 days and then increase the dosage up 3 tbsp for up to a similar time.
I’m not sure about long term. Ive read long term use can cause anemia but not able to prove. If it works then I’d say keep the Epsom salt in the tank for bloat treatment and prevention. Epsom salt won’t mess with other fish.
Everything that you add to a tank increases TDS, so start small and work your way up. Personally I don't see why one would need to keep a fish in this bath long term (past 10 days) - if so, chances are a more aggressive manner of treatment may be required. Good luck.
You may want to quarantine the bloat and the eye issues this silver is experiencing. Not sure what’s going on but there’s several thick looking shortbody silvers out there on FB and YouTube. Particular in Vietnam. Perhaps them being obese is too easy for them. Lol
Yes I have already Qt'd the fish.
Polota are very easy to get obese, and they're quite easy to feed as well.
Here’s an older video of the 10” when it was a bit smaller. Appetite was uncontrollable, lol. May have had some shortbody traits too.
Epsom salt is administered via a bath either short term out-of-tank or long term in-tank. I apologize I was not clear. I meant of course the in-tank treatment. Both methods can be applied as a succession of iterations. I'd not keep Epsom salt or any medicine, even table salt, in my tanks after a problem I was trying to address is corrected or beyond recommended time period.
Here is an update of the datnoides, which I assumed had bloat, he is going through a serious diet, to reduce his weight now.
The fish had eaten so much that his eyes had gone cloudy, now he is in a separate tank and gets fed three times a week, but controlled quantities
