Ick Question

[purpleangel]

When you add the salt for this treatment do you add the salt all at once or some everyday ? My tank is a 55 gallon

Thanks

[Riiz]

Add it gradually, same with the temp.

[Sploke]

I dissolve it in a bucket of tank water then syphon it in with airline tubing.

[Riiz]

I guess I should of asked which type of salt, I buy large rock salt and just drop it in. Being fairly large it dissolves slowly, unlike table salt which will near instantly dissolves.

[Blueiz]

I make a solution of the total amt of salt i need with a gallon of tank water , then add in one cup an hour til its all in...

[Sploke]

I use regular old morton's table salt.

[purpleangel]

Thank-you. I'm going to take your advise. I used regular table salt. When should I do a h20 change ?

Do you know how long it will take to remove the ick and will I have to re-peat the salt process?

[purpleangel]

Thanks and I am going to do exactly what you advised.

CONGRATULATIONS

[Sploke]

I keep to my regular water change schedule when treating for ich. When you fill the tank back up, replace the salt the water hcange removed. It will probably take 4-6 days for the ich to start going away. Treat for 7 days after all signs have disappeared.

[purpleangel]

Hmm-
I'm off to a bad start off already. What I did was take the h20 from the tank and put salt in it and put it back in the tank. Was that wrong?

duh

[purpleangel]

Humn- So just take h20 out of tank and replace with new h20 and add more salt right??

[Squeakfish]

Wait, wait- regular table salt? I thought table salt was a bad thing to use in aquariums.

[Lupin]

Wait, wait- regular table salt? I thought table salt was a bad thing to use in aquariums.
No, it is not. People spread the myth around for the sake of profit. The iodine concentration is no longer a concern and as the amount of iodine is being monitored by authorities considering a massive amount of iodine can be very dangerous for human consumption, it is safe for the fish. Aquarium salt is plain salt in fancy package. Why spend for one when you can have table salt at a fraction of the price of "aquarium salt"?

[grannylvsfish]

add salt to 1 gallon of water. slowly over a day add the solution.... make sure the salt is disolved. I did mine in a quart of hot water and added tank water to the rest. I added it slowly thru out the day and the next day until all the salt water was in the tank. Leave it in until all signs of the ick are gone, wait 7 more days to be sure its all gone. do weekly water changes as your suposed to and add back the water and salt taken out. ( 2 tsp. per gallon of water. ) simple and effective.
I also say if your using a HOB filter to drop the water level 2 inches for more areation.
14 days is the standard amount of time to treat, if I am not mistaken. Good luck.

[KarlTh]

I doubt whether the iodine concentration was ever an issue, to be honest. Salt is cheap, iodine expensive so there's no profit motive in over-iodining salt. I'd have thought that before it was regulated the risk was companies claiming their salt was iodised when it wasn't, leading to iodine-deficient people developing goitres.