NoodleCats
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Lol most catfish are salt sensitive. Many scaleless fish are.
In this situation, salt will NOT help an already ailing pleco.
In this situation, salt will NOT help an already ailing pleco.
Salt is very good advice and it won't hurt a pleco, shrimp, snails or plants.
To cure the fungus I'd really go with salt, though I agree with you it won't cure stunted growth![]()
Maybe, yeah. My pleco hasn't been stressed at all, though some fish might hide this but.You are using ±10 grams per gallon. It is way too much to prevent brown blood disease and for softwater SA fish but not enough for a therapeutic level against flukes. It won't do anything but stress the pleco if you are trying it for a bacterial infection or a tumor (which can not be cured by a product but needs to be surgically removed by a specialized veterinarian). Fungus (Saprolegnia) is not a disease that needs to be treated rather as a symptom of poor maintenance and weakened fish, which can and should not be fixed by salt either.