My Daughter scrubbed my flowerhorn
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Once you add the salt, Please remember to do a 50% water change every morning. Add the salt again for the new 50% water. At all times keep the tank dark. I would suggest covering the tank with Old newspaper or maybe a blanket.
Fish have amazing self healing powers and they would come in effect if the fish is stress free. The only way to do that is medicate the tank and leave him alone for a couple of days and be patient. Good luck bro.
Fish have amazing self healing powers and they would come in effect if the fish is stress free. The only way to do that is medicate the tank and leave him alone for a couple of days and be patient. Good luck bro.
no need to get aquarium salt. Its expensive and does the same as kosher,sea,rock salt. Whatever you do, don't use iodized salt though, but any non iodized salt that you can eat is just fine bud, andmuch cheaper.
polish;2214856; said:
thats the first thing i thought.
but as stated salt should do the trick. keep us updatedOcean Free aquarium salt is specially formulated to disinfect the water as well as to calm the fish down. Most preferred for stressed, hurt or diseased flowerhorns. This is not a direct cure and does not even provide a slimy coat on the fish, but definitely helps the fish to calm down and stop him from getting hurt again and again due to stress and panic. Besides, here in Bangalore, 250gms of Ocean Free Aquarium Stress buster salt is only about 2$ to 3$. Considering the love we put on our fish, this is not at all expensive.
What Vittleking said is very important. DO NOT PUT ANY FORM OF IODIZED SALT. In other words, do not use cooking salt.
@Vittleking
Dude its very rare to get non-iodized salt here in our city. Even the simple Rock salt comes iodized due to the stringent food laws here. That is the reason i suggested him to go for aqua salt. It is safer.
What Vittleking said is very important. DO NOT PUT ANY FORM OF IODIZED SALT. In other words, do not use cooking salt.
@Vittleking
Dude its very rare to get non-iodized salt here in our city. Even the simple Rock salt comes iodized due to the stringent food laws here. That is the reason i suggested him to go for aqua salt. It is safer.
VittleKing;2216059; said:
unless you are making brine solution you don't need to worry about iodinenpd_raj;2216123; said:
rock salt will do the trick
@anurag
get a bigger tank or use a bigger tub atleast temporarily for that FH
as at this moment the water quality has to be real good as the fish right
now is very vulnerable to infections and fungus as its slime coat is lost
and 90 degree F temp would be a nice thing too
your daughter is quite intelligent to be able to catch a fish such as a FH, and it might have helped that the tank is quite small too
by the way which FH was it that your daughter mishandled
try getting rock salt, which is sold for like 4-5rs a kilo
lol! i wish my son was like your daughter. he is two now and he knows better to go near the tank now. he used to see that every morning i always turn off the light to my tank. so one day i came home from work tried, and went straight to sleep. woke up that morning all my fishes died except one little fh. found out he pulled the plug to my tank. 
