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Salt and water conditioner. That's all you need until you know what the problem is.
Most fish health issues are caused by poor water quality, dirty gravel and a dirty filter. If you do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate each week, and clean the filter once a month, your fish shouldn't get sick unless you introduce a disease into the tank. And this can be prevented by quarantining new fish.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.
Aquarium salt or rock salt is sodium chloride and will treat minor fungal and minor bacterial infections, as well as a number of external protozoan infections (not white spot or velvet), and it treats gill flukes, anchorworm and a few other external parasites.
If your fish get sick, test the water quality for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH. Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week or until you find out what is wrong with the fish. Then treat with salt or an appropriate medication.
The following link has information about what to do if your fish get sick. It's long and boring but worth a read when you have spare time.
www.fishforums.net
Most fish health issues are caused by poor water quality, dirty gravel and a dirty filter. If you do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate each week, and clean the filter once a month, your fish shouldn't get sick unless you introduce a disease into the tank. And this can be prevented by quarantining new fish.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.
Aquarium salt or rock salt is sodium chloride and will treat minor fungal and minor bacterial infections, as well as a number of external protozoan infections (not white spot or velvet), and it treats gill flukes, anchorworm and a few other external parasites.
If your fish get sick, test the water quality for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH. Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week or until you find out what is wrong with the fish. Then treat with salt or an appropriate medication.
The following link has information about what to do if your fish get sick. It's long and boring but worth a read when you have spare time.
What to do if your fish gets sick
If your fish ever looks sick or unwell, then the following steps might help. Test the Water and Clean the Tank. Test the water quality for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH and write the results down in numbers. Check it for general hardness (GH) and carbonate hardness (KH) too if you can, but...
www.fishforums.net
I concur on the salt.
Clean water and salt will pretty much solve any disease that your fish may have. (Other more serious diseases will require some anti fungal properties)
Clean water and salt will pretty much solve any disease that your fish may have. (Other more serious diseases will require some anti fungal properties)
Agreed , all I keep is salt and dechlorinator , I find instead of having loads of meds waiting to be used have a spare heater a spare filter things that sometimes can’t be replaced in a day and be sure they will break when you have no time to fix them
I do most of what you
say there actually I have substrate in tank there is a little bit of gravel under it , I don't always do the gravel, So the filter should be cleaned every month , I just I hope to set up a quarantine tank which I hope to use for breeding too if it happens, is a simple sponge filter adequate for this and heater etc , Any particular salt or dechlorinator to have I do use seachem prime , thanks for any advice .
say there actually I have substrate in tank there is a little bit of gravel under it , I don't always do the gravel, So the filter should be cleaned every month , I just I hope to set up a quarantine tank which I hope to use for breeding too if it happens, is a simple sponge filter adequate for this and heater etc , Any particular salt or dechlorinator to have I do use seachem prime , thanks for any advice .
For dechlorinator I use fluval aqua plus water conditioner I’m not sure if there is good or bad ones just personal preference, as for salt I rarely use it so I have unrefined sea salt just as a quick option plus use it at dinner time lol
I use Seachem Prime. Not sure it’s any better than the Aqua +.
All water conditioners remove chlorine (they turn it into chloride)
Just about all water conditioners split chloramine into chlorine and ammonia and remove the chlorine.
Most water conditioners bind metals.
A lot of water conditioners detoxify ammonia for around 24 hours.
If you have chlorine in your water supply you only need #1 and #3. If you have chloramine you need all 4.
Those water conditioners which detoxify ammonia act on the ammonia half of chloramine. The beneficial bacteria in the tank convert this detoxified ammonia into nitrite then nitrate within 24 hours so by the time the detoxification wears off, the ammonia has all been removed.
A lot of water conditioners contain something to 'promote the slime coat' You don't need this at all.
Just about all water conditioners split chloramine into chlorine and ammonia and remove the chlorine.
Most water conditioners bind metals.
A lot of water conditioners detoxify ammonia for around 24 hours.
If you have chlorine in your water supply you only need #1 and #3. If you have chloramine you need all 4.
Those water conditioners which detoxify ammonia act on the ammonia half of chloramine. The beneficial bacteria in the tank convert this detoxified ammonia into nitrite then nitrate within 24 hours so by the time the detoxification wears off, the ammonia has all been removed.
A lot of water conditioners contain something to 'promote the slime coat' You don't need this at all.
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