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[danotaylor]

I was very nervous dosing my discus tank at 1tbsp/1gal but they handled it without issue. They were tank raised also, but I know folks over on the Simply Discus website that use this dosing with wild discus from 0 TDS native waters.
To be careful you could bring it up to concentration over a 24 hour period and keep watch as you add each subsequent dose

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

The video only speaks about an antibiotic treatment and an alternative salt treatment. The first kills the bacteria the epistylis feeds on, the latter kills the epistylis itself. No mention of formalin-malachite green treatment.

Also the video is in a bit of contradiction with other writeups on the epistylis I had read but I guess several approaches have been shown successful, which is great as it gives a keeper flexibility.

 

[Silvertongue700]

I was very nervous dosing my discus tank at 1tbsp/1gal but they handled it without issue. They were tank raised also, but I know folks over on the Simply Discus website that use this dosing with wild discus from 0 TDS native waters.
To be careful you could bring it up to concentration over a 24 hour period and keep watch as you add each subsequent dose

Got it and you are saying the salt combined with the Maracyn 2 will be sufficient?

 

[danotaylor]

I cannot answer that question with confidence, but what I do know is that in addition to the correct internal medicine, the right salt dose will deal with the bacterial load in the water column and stimulate slime coat production where it has been damaged.
I would encourage a daily 50% water change for a week to remove dead bacteria and replace the salt concentration with fresh water. Keep at that concentration for 2 weeks then as you do water changes beyond 2 weeks let the salt concentration come back down