flag tail help

[tigrey]

i brought home a flagtail the other day and notice that it scratched a couple of times, i want to add salt and raise my temp. how much salt can flagtails handle. i want to add salt to try to get rid of anything he might of brought home with him.
thanks

 

[SteveR]

He's prob just scrapped himself on something in the old or your tank. Keep the water changes up and there's no need for anything else...you don't need salt.

 

[snake8myelbo]

I add salt to all my tanks when i do a water change. depends on how big the tank is? i add 3-4 handfulls to my 180 when i do water changes. I also keep a flagtail in my 180. and always throw in some salt when someone gets beat up. IMO

 

[tigrey]

I add salt to all my tanks when i do a water change. depends on how big the tank is? i add 3-4 handfulls to my 180 when i do water changes. I also keep a flagtail in my 180. and always throw in some salt when someone gets beat up. IMO

right now all of my fish are in my 60 gallon. my 240 gallon is almost done with cycle. i got the flagtail and thats when the scratching started so i wanna add salt. i think im going to add 1 table spoon per 5 gallons and ive bumped my temp to 85 86 its the api aquarium salt

 

[flamenco-t]

What are his tankmates ? Try to isolate the culprit and separate him.

Salt is not neccesary. Just make sure the water is pristine (regular WC) and keep potential attacker away from him and he'll heal up in a few weeks.

stan

 

[BlackShark11k]

I add salt to all my tanks when i do a water change. depends on how big the tank is? i add 3-4 handfulls to my 180 when i do water changes. I also keep a flagtail in my 180. and always throw in some salt when someone gets beat up. IMO

that tends to be a bad idea unless your keeping brakish water fish. in most fw fish, especially some kinds of catfish, salt causes stress. the slime coating they get from the salt is actually the fish's defense, they get extremely irritated by salt and therefore create a slime coat. using salt occasionally to treat injuries and ailments is fine, but as a tonic salt is a very bad idea.

 

[SteveR]

Enough with the salt! You should not be adding it when doing water changes, also many would argue even if a fish is "beat up" salt has no medically evidence proven result that it will do anything in terms of healing, faster than good water quality would...

 

[tigrey]

Enough with the salt! You should not be adding it when doing water changes, also many would argue even if a fish is "beat up" salt has no medically evidence proven result that it will do anything in terms of healing, faster than good water quality would...

cant you read the post theres no beating up involved i got a new flagtail and he scratched in my tank. the next day my bichir scratch so i add salt salt salt

 

[snake8myelbo]

salt salt salt! lol dont knock it!

brackish water is from sea salt! lol Use aquarium salt, i would not suggest sea salt.