Ich Instant Ocean Question

Instant Ocean isnt the same kind of stuff and wont do anything

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actually, instant ocean is jusst another brand of sea salt and will work just fine.

I would have been adding this anyway to make him Brackish so therefore it does not apply to my particular fish

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correct. you can certainly use marine salt mix in your treatment of ich. it contains plenty of NaCl. in fact, it's mostly NaCl.

so the bottom line is

Can I add the Marine Salt (Instant Ocean) I already have?

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absolutely.

then why don't people just buy table salt in bulk and use it for their SW tanks?

then why don't people just buy table salt in bulk and use it for their SW tanks?

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because table salt is 99.99 percent sodium chloride.

the composition of salt water is much more complex and very important to sea life and fish that live in brackish water.

Element ppm
Chlorine, Cl 19,500
Sodium, Na 10,770
Magnesium, Mg 1,290
Sulphur, S 905
Calcium, Ca 412
Potassium, K 380
Bromine, Br 67
Carbon, C 28
Nitrogen, N 11.5
Strontium, Sr 8.0
Oxygen, O 6
Boron, B 4.4
Silicon, Si 2
Fluorine, F 1.3
Argon, Ar 0.43
Lithium, Li 0.18
Rubidium, Rb 0.12
Phosphorus, P 0.06
Iodine, I 0.06
Barium, Ba 0.02
Molybdenium, Mo 0.01
Arsenic, As 0.0037
Uranium, U 0.0032
Vanadium, V 0.0025
Titanium, Ti 0.001
Zinc, Zn 0.0005
Nickel, Ni 0.00048
Aluminium, Al 0.0004
Cesium, Cs 0.0004
Chromium, Cr 0.0003
Antimony, Sb 0.00024
Krypton, Kr 0.0002
Selenium, Se 0.0002
Neon, Ne 0.00012
Manganese, Mn 0.0001
Cadmium, Cd 0.0001
Copper, Cu 0.0001
Tungsten, W 0.0001
Iron, Fe 0.000055
Xenon, Xe 0.00005
Zirconium, Zr 0.00003
Bismuth, Bi 0.00002
Niobium, Nb 0.00001
Thallium, Tl 0.00001
Thorium, Th 0.00001
Hafnium, Hf 7 x 10-6
Helium, He 6.8 x 10-6
Beryllium, Be 5.6 x 10-6
Germanium, Ge 5 x 10-6
Gold, Au 4 x 10-6
Rhenium, Re 4 x 10-6
Cobalt, Co 3 x 10-6
Lanthanum, La 3 x 10-6
Neodymium, Nd 3 x 10-6
Lead, Pb 2 x 10-6
Silver, Ag 2 x 10-6
Tantalum, Ta 2 x 10-6
Gallium, Ga 2 x 10-6
Yttrium, Y 1.3 x 10-6
Mercury, Hg 1 x 10-6
Cerium, Ce 1 x 10-6
Dysprosium, Dy 9 x 10-7
Erbium, Er 8 x 10-7
Ytterbium, Yb 8 x 10-7
Gadolinium, Gd 7 x 10-7
Praseodymium, Pr 6 x 10-7
Scandium, Sc 6 x 10-7
Tin, Sn 6 x 10-7
Holmium, Ho 2 x 10-7
Lutetium, Lu 2 x 10-7
Thulium, Tm 2 x 10-7
Indium, In 1 x 10-7
Trebium, Tb 1 x 10-7
Palladium, Pd 5 x 10-8
Samarium, Sm 5 x 10-8
Tellurium, Te 1 x 10-8
Europium, Eu 1 x 10-8
Radium, Ra 7 x 10-11
Protactinium, Pa 5 x 10-11
Radon, Rn 6 x 10-16

as for killing the ich parasite with sea salt, it has plenty of sodium and chloride to do the job.

I have raised him to .001

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what is .001? salinity? don't know about that but you're shooting for 2 teaspoons per gallon.

Correct me if I am wrong but brackish water is .002 to around .012. After that it is condsidered marine water.

Am I right or completely off here?

Anyway making the water brackish using marine salt (especially if you have brackish fish) is a great way to help wipe out the ich.

Almost the same way that using a fresh water bath on Marine fish works to rid them of ich. Granted it is more of a change in pressure that does the job there with the Marine fish. But as you raise the salt levels in the freshwater tank to mid to high brackish levels the ich that are attached to the fish will certainly find it a lot more uncomfortable. It won't rid them as fast as it does with marine fish but I would assume that it would speed things up a tad.