TwoTankAmin
Fish Connoisseur
Do not use salt if it is a mix for sw or brackish water. These contain more than sodium chloride.
I would not take my clowns over about 85/86F. My biggest is almost 12 inches and I have had it for oer 20 years now. Lost my oldest and largest about 2 years back. Last year I had to remove the current #2 about 9-10 inches to an H tank to treat it for wasting.
I have not had to medicate any of the other clowns over the years.
And one usually cannot get the water temp high enough to kill ich without likely doing so to your fish. The alternating temp methong requores fish be able ti withsatnd bot 70 F and 90F
The thing aboout treating ich is that many options require extended treatment periods or repated round of treatment due to the life cycyle of the parasite. Many potentially effective treatment only kill it in on maybe two of the stages which is the reason for how they must be used. A few treatments will wipe them out more effectively.
For us as fish keepers we are faced with a myriad of chpices from various sources who want our money. So it pays to investigate anything we might choose on are own. We also need to pay attention to the treatment directions for anything we use.
The reason people still use salt is it is a more mild treatment that will work and is likely to be less costly. The thing is, we van actually use table salt for this. I was taught this by a very well known hobbyist many years back whom I knew from another site long gone. But his writings are still available today, You can decide for yourself what salt you want to use when you do so after reading here:
https://www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/The_Salt_of_the_Earth
I would not take my clowns over about 85/86F. My biggest is almost 12 inches and I have had it for oer 20 years now. Lost my oldest and largest about 2 years back. Last year I had to remove the current #2 about 9-10 inches to an H tank to treat it for wasting.
I have not had to medicate any of the other clowns over the years.
And one usually cannot get the water temp high enough to kill ich without likely doing so to your fish. The alternating temp methong requores fish be able ti withsatnd bot 70 F and 90F
The thing aboout treating ich is that many options require extended treatment periods or repated round of treatment due to the life cycyle of the parasite. Many potentially effective treatment only kill it in on maybe two of the stages which is the reason for how they must be used. A few treatments will wipe them out more effectively.
For us as fish keepers we are faced with a myriad of chpices from various sources who want our money. So it pays to investigate anything we might choose on are own. We also need to pay attention to the treatment directions for anything we use.
The reason people still use salt is it is a more mild treatment that will work and is likely to be less costly. The thing is, we van actually use table salt for this. I was taught this by a very well known hobbyist many years back whom I knew from another site long gone. But his writings are still available today, You can decide for yourself what salt you want to use when you do so after reading here:
https://www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/The_Salt_of_the_Earth
from https://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/author/rtr/
