RD's sensitive to salt?

[Darky]

Just need to know how sensitive they are to salt? Cause Im pretty sure he has ich atm...going to use guppies way of treating him. Thanks.

 

[santoury]

With ICH, the only thing I do is change the water more often, and sometimes (note the sometimes) raise the temp, and feed well.
Personally I find that a fish's natural defenses will overcome the parasites when in top health, rather than changing the environment itself (the temp, etc.) But most fish tolerate a small amount of aquarium salt.

 

[Darky]

Well he has about 10 or so white spots on him and ill probably be doing a 3-4 wc's a week till its gone. Hes in pretty good shape, very active and eating lots of guppies hopefully he can overcome it.

 

[santoury]

if he's behaving normally, eating, etc... then you've caught it early. Good going

 

[Darky]

What temperature should I raise the water to? I have it ussually sitting at like 78 farenheit.

 

[santoury]

82 should be good

 

[Darky]

Ok thanks for your help

 

[santoury]

My pleasure

 

[Darky]

One more thing...wont heating up the temperature to 82 degrees just speed up the life cycle of the ich? Is that temp sufficient to destroy them?

 

[Wolf3101]

The salt kills the Ich...the temperiture increase just speeds up the cycle...Ich is only vernirable in the larval stage. We ususlly bump the temp up to 88...