Ich on a pleco, is salt a good treatment for it?

[watermelon]

I am debating this with someone..Please tell me if salt is dangerous to it..I know there are meds but would you go for salt or medication?

[Holly9937]

I would go for salt first, short term (a few weeks, however long to treat) will not harm the pleco. Most of the meds. are so strong, they are much more stressful than salt would be

[sumthin fishy]

In general medications will have more negative effect on the fish. The levels of salt needed for the ich treatment are considerably low. Now take that with a grain of salt ;), being that the information I have has been mostly aquired from this site, mostly through daveedka. Being that he almost always posts a link to scientific data as well as specifics to his own experience, AND admits when he doesnt know the answers, Id be willing to bet my life savings he is spot on with his info.

Print this out for your friend. http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39759

[randalizm]

heres (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39759) the best ich article with info for curing ich with salt. oh sorry sumthin fishy gave it to you already :duh: