My New New fish!!!YaY!!!
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that makes it sound like your fish can't handle salt, so one would assume that because you know this you wouldn't be using salt.
Well i have black kuhlis, and blue2fyre told me if i did have non salt tolerant fish i could dissolve aquarium and or table salt, about 1 tbsp per 5 gal, so i put about3-4 tbsp just to be safe. I also put in a small airstone, and the temp is around 84, anything else i should do??? Also, i only see a few spots on a few fish, should i start putting the dissolved salt water in now or wait?
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nope thats about it.
just a few thoughts.
1. Aquarium salt is not necessary, plain old table salt will do the trick for considerably less money.
2. when you make your salt solution use tank water in a bucket to dissolve the salt.
3. once the solution is made dose 1/4 of it ever 3-4 hrs to see how the fish handle the salt, over the course of a few days you can slowly increase the amount you dose until you are dosing it all at once.
4. continue at least 7 days after you see spots disappear from the fish
just a few thoughts.
1. Aquarium salt is not necessary, plain old table salt will do the trick for considerably less money.
2. when you make your salt solution use tank water in a bucket to dissolve the salt.
3. once the solution is made dose 1/4 of it ever 3-4 hrs to see how the fish handle the salt, over the course of a few days you can slowly increase the amount you dose until you are dosing it all at once.
4. continue at least 7 days after you see spots disappear from the fish
ok im sorry, i m kinda confused, first, i dont have any buckets, can i just use a milk gallon jug thing? and should i put like, 4-5 tablespoons of iodized salt(table salt) into it then once its disolved start putting it in right away?
it doesn't really matter what you make it in.....
dissolve 2 tbsp per gallon of tank water in a separate bucket. You will probably have to heat the water to get the salt to dissolve. Once that is done fill up some kind of container and through out the course of the day dose fractions of the whole amount
dissolve 2 tbsp per gallon of tank water in a separate bucket. You will probably have to heat the water to get the salt to dissolve. Once that is done fill up some kind of container and through out the course of the day dose fractions of the whole amount
ok now hold on, 2 tbsp per 1 gallon and 1 tbsp per 5 gallon is radically diff. remember, i have kuhli loaches, and i don't know if that is too good for them, i just put 4 and a half tbsp of salt in one gallon of water, will this be fine?
ok either you have fish that can handle salt or you don't. At one point you said that you have non salt tolerant fish and then later you said it's ok. The general rule of thumb is 2tbs per gallon.
