Never had ick before is this it hard to see but little white spots on body and finView attachment 1376797View attachment 1376798
Hard to tell but looks like lymphocytes. Ich will look like someone sprinkled salt all over the fishes body once it start spreading.
I agree with Tom. Add some salt and increase ur water changes.Hard to tell but looks like lymphocytes. Ich will look like someone sprinkled salt all over the fishes body once it start spreading.
It will. Can always just watch w/o salt and keep the water clean.Ok thanks will the salt kill my plants
Like I posted recently, salt can be detrimental to plants but not necessarily kill them. When treating ich (which it appears is not the case here), a relatively strong salt solution is used for about 2 weeks. My plants got some brown leaves but lived through it. Yes you could loose some of the more non robust varieties.Although salt may kill certain plants, it may not harm others.
Java fern, and vallisneria are somewhat salt tolerant.
I just treated the tank below with 3.5ppt salinity (using 18 gallons of sea water, in a 180 gal tank), the val. and Hydrilla were unaffected, an Anubis melted back a bit, and an Amazon Sword, stopped growing for a while.
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the photo above is from yesterday. I treated for ick about 3 weeks (maybe a little longer)
I was told this is jungle val not sure but it is the only thing plant wise that hasn't died on meAlthough salt may kill certain plants, it may not harm others.
Java fern, and vallisneria are somewhat salt tolerant.
I just treated the tank below with 3.5ppt salinity (using 18 gallons of sea water, in a 180 gal tank), the val. and Hydrilla were unaffected, an Anubis melted back a bit, and an Amazon Sword, stopped growing for a while.
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the photo above is from yesterday. I treated for ick about 3 weeks (maybe a little longer)