when i am adding salt to treat ich how many times a week should i be adding the salt and how much salt each time
Originally posted by RTR
I use 1 teaspoon per gallon of water, pre-dissolved in tank water and added slowly to the tank. Raise the temperature to the mid-80s if your heater will hold that. Maintain the temp. and salt for at least 10 days after the last visible symptom. Watch respiration rates - Ich affects gills and the water hold less O2 anyway at higher temp, so if the fish are gasping, increase aeration.
I have used the same tecnique for loaches, tetras, whatever including tanks with catfish without ever, repeat ever, losing a fish or having Ich recur.
Catfish and loaches should not be maintained in water with salt chronically. For an acute period of disease treatment, it does no harm at the specified dose. All the rest of dire warnings are myth.
If you add the salt dry and the catfish is sitting in it, that is not the way to do it. If you over or underdose, that is not right either (you can go higher without scaleless fish, 1 1/2 teaspoons per gal, but should not need to do so).