Salt bath

[New Boy]

I helped my sister set up a tank a month or so back and she finally added some platies earlier this week but two of them seem to have developed velvet....I seem to remember from when I kept platies ten years or so back that you can give them a salt bath to get rid of fungus, velvet, and white spot but can't remember exactly how to do it.

Was it remove a gallon of tank water and add ten tablespoons of salt then catch the fish and put it into the salty water for t minutes then lift it back into the tank?

Is this still the done thing? I'll add half dose of protozin to her tank too but I don't want to go over the top on the treatments as her beneficial bacteria will still be building up.

Thanks

 

[cassandra]

hello, i am in the same boat i think and anyways go to this site that aqua princess64 gave me it's www.thetropicaltank.co it's great if you have problems getting to the site go to fish emergnacy in this forum and under black mollie acting werid (is she dying) and go to the bottom thats where Aqua princess64 gave me the site and click on it i thank her so much for it she's great!!! i hope this helps you it gives you all the info on salt bath