???Using salt with freshwater catfish???

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Fish Doctor I am not Is it possible to get gill flukes in an established aquarium that hasnt seen a new fish in well over 8 months ?? Either way he is doing fine now and thats all that really matters. I will not be adding any more salt as its a pain in the ass anyways

Thanks for all your helpful information



bob

I'm glad to help .

I'm don't know that much about gill flukes apart from the symptoms they cause fish to have and how to treat them, but it appears that some fish can sometimes carry gull flukes for quite some time before the flukes become a problem (some people also suspect that certain live foods like black worms can carry gill flukes with them);

http://en.mimi.hu/aquarium/gill_flukes.html



Gill flukes are absolutely tiny and you are unlikely to see them with the naked eye, more than often the only symptoms fish display when they have gill flukes is rapid/heavy breathing or inflamed/sore-looking gills or the fish flicking and rubbing itself against stuff in the tank or all of these symptoms together. So it can be difficult in ID'ing what the fish is exactly suffering from since these sorts of symptoms are share by many diseases and parasites or caused by other problems.