Help with ick

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wolfer

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london ontario
I have indoor pond around 200 gallons with an Oscar pleco clown knife and catfish.... I noticed my Oscar has white spots all over him but the others look fine.... I'm slowly raising the temp as high as I can hopefully over 82 ( its in my basement with 3 300 watt heaters but its cold down there) I want to add salt and was wondering if I could use instant ocean salt?

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The tank needs to get to 86-87F to work effectively (to stop the life cycle.) Salt simply disrupts further. A space heater will help a lot to warm up the room and enable the tank heaters to raise it high enough.

Don't do a combo of meds, heat and salt. Any one of those will stress many fish and doing all 3 on top of ick is asking for death. High heat and salt or moderate heat and meds.

Be sure to add aeration if you go for high heat. Vacuuming the substrate may work towards grabbing some of the non swimming forms.
 
All the had at Lowes was Windsor system saver pellet they say 99.6 % pure salt will that work

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Nooooooo


Go to your local pet store and buy API aquarium salt. The big box will cost about $10 and will be more than enough to treat your pond.

That stuff from Lowes will kill your fish!
 
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