fin rot
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My experience with fin rot is that it's 90% of the time due to ammonia or some other contaminant. Make sure your ammonia is 0.
Salt will likely harm plants at level high enough to assist in some forms of fin rot. I've never had it do a lot of good.
If your ammonia is 0, you might try Melafix or Primafix, I can't remember which is for what. Should be plant safe.
Salt will likely harm plants at level high enough to assist in some forms of fin rot. I've never had it do a lot of good.
If your ammonia is 0, you might try Melafix or Primafix, I can't remember which is for what. Should be plant safe.
Mako said:
Melafix is the fin rot one, primafix is something else for cycling or something.
Melafix DOES CURE finrot, I have had great results with it when I had an outbreak. Dirty water/substrate is usually the culprit.
Do a 30% change, do a 7 day cycle of Melafix and do another water change. Also buy a non syphoning battery operated gravel vac. Fin rot is from too much waste in the gravel.
Melafix is not a silver bullet, give it time and you will see results on the 5th day and beyond.
BTW, buy Melafix Pond. It's the same stuff, just 5ppm of the medicine vs. 1ppm.
Basically it's 5x as strong so you use 5x less and save money.