the Salt ich treatment question

oh, lol.
I have one more question on it though, about adding it

"To add salt, mix it in small volumes and add to your tank. It is not recommended to dump salt in directly as a solid. My method is to mix it with a bucket of tank water and siphon it into my filter with a ¼ inch airline. This ensures it is mixed and adds it slowly to a high flow area to be further mixed as it enters the tank. I add ¼ teaspoon per gallon once an hour for four hours. This brings me to a level of one teaspoon per gallon in four hours. At this level, I am far more relaxed and will generally increase it to two teaspoons per gallon in ¼ teaspoon increments every three to four hours"

Now I know it might be really easy and out there, and Im making it seem harder then it says, but I just want to make sure, lol

Now I get the part where you mix it with your water in a bucket and what not, then after is it saying that when it goes time to add it that I just do 1/4 of it every hour? Or something else?
 
I think what the person means is in the bucket they mixes enough salt and water for it to be equal to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon in the aquarium. and then they keep doing that every 3-4 hours. Not sure if I made sense.

That paragraph seems really simple when you read it, but if you think about it, it's a little confusing.
 
hmm, so for a 45 gallon tank it would take me 2 days to get all of it in there? I might have did the math wrong, maybe I shouldnt of read that so hard and I might have got it the first time
 
Hi. I just went through the salt ich treatment and it did work, but it took 3-4 days before I saw a difference. I had a 20g and mixed my 40 tsps in one gallon of dechlorinated water. I then poured directly into the tank some of the salty solution several times that day until the solution was gone. Bumped up heaters. I was scared to do 86 so I kept it at 84, but my tanks thermometers would read 86 and the fish were fine in the heat.

Just be sure to create a lot more splash by not filling your tank to the top so that there will be more oxygen in the water. My fish needed that extra oxygen to get through the heat.
 
Thanks, that makes a lot more sence to me.
 
kntrygrl4lyfe said:
hmm, so for a 45 gallon tank it would take me 2 days to get all of it in there? I might have did the math wrong, maybe I shouldnt of read that so hard and I might have got it the first time
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The 1/4 teaspoon per gallon means for the volume of the tank. Your first addition would be 45 gallons divided by 4 = 11 1/4. You would mix 11 1/4 teaspoons each hour. If you follow the method’s timeframe it will still take you the 4 hours to get up to 1 teaspoon per gallon.
 
Salt on neio/cardinal tetras

I saw a post with Salt treatment on a tank with neons tetras.
I remember reading articles that salt treatment can be harmful
for sensitive tetras like neons or cardinals. I am currently also doing
salt treatment in a tank with 9 cardinals with around 2 tspn/G.
I am wondering if anyone had experience with dead neon/cardinal
tetras as a result of using salt.


Thanks
 
I noticed ich in my 60 gallon yesterday. I don't like the malachite green/formaldehyde solution. Killed my catfish last year. I have increased my temp to 85 and salt level to 1 and a half teaspoons per gallon. Sould this get rid of the ich? I haven't added any fish for about a month. Can ich be brought in by feeder fish? They seldom last more than 30 seconds in my tank.
 
Any unquarantined fish especially feeders will carry ich. I add a teaspoon per gallon of table salt every 12 hours until I reach a total of three teaspoons per gallon in at least 36 hours when battling ich. If you have bottom dwellers, 1-2 teaspoons per gallon is the max. That's a case by case basis. Not all fishes have the same level of tolerance. And remember, DISSOLVE the salt.
 
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