Salt! Salt!!! SALT!!!

[DRD1812]

Mayjor accident I was putting some salt in for my bumblebee goby when i knocked the bag over and bout half the bag went in the tank loads i mean absolutely loads went in i decided the best course of action was to stir the water to desolve it in then do a big water change.

Is there anything else I can do to help my fish and which are most at risk from this accident I have a small tank on the side but it has no filter or even ready water in it and I cant put them all in there since I have a male and a female betta and one of them would die in a small tank.

 

[CathyG]

A major water change and asap is all I can think of right now...

Good luck!

 

[Erised]

I'm not sure what salt you're using, but for my gobies I'm using 'red sea salt'. Far as I'm aware its BAD to put salt right into the water when the fish are in there, seeing as it can cause them bad burns from the salt touching their skin. As it says on the bag and on websites I've seen before, you're supposed to mix the salt into the water you're gonna add (when its still in the bucket) and leave it for at least an hour before you pour it into the tank

For now, keep a very close eye on them, do a water change and if you can see any signs of them not acting or looking normal at all put them into a different tank (with brackish water ofcourse, but not over-salted Guessing it cant hurt to make a small bucket with a little bit of salt where they can go into for a bit). I'm really not sure though! Hope they'll be ok

 

[gaya]

can't you scoop the salt out while doing water changes?

 

[Erised]

The salt mixes in with the water, the only way to get it out again is by vaporising the water

 

[gaya]

yea, but it takes time to dilute and i bet a lot of it can just be scooped out. I left aquarium salt in a paper cup filled with water over night and not much of it dissolved.

 

[Erised]

i decided the best course of action was to stir the water to desolve it in then do a big water change.

Seeing as its stirred in already, it will be Very hard to scoop out. Also, most of my salt mixes in pretty much right away. *shrugs* ... I dont know, perhaps you could scoop out most of it at the time, but right now its too late anyway

 

[SnowyzMom]

If you have a hospital/quarantine tank I'd put all the fish into it now and do 50% water changes on that main tank for 3 or 4 days, minimum. That's a disaster alright. Let us know how it goes! Hope all works out okay.

 

[DRD1812]

Right I did about a 20% waterchange and I put my male fighter in my small tank then put a cd case down the middle and put my female betta in the other (thats how small it is I use it for fry etc usually) and left the others in the tank cos they are mollys n platies mostly so hardy and a killifish which are pretty hardy n don't mind salt.

I couldnt scoop it out as it all team onto my bubble wall and in line of my filter too so it pretty much disolved straight away well with a minute or so while i was running about swaering alot and paniking.

I was putting it in a measureing jug of water to add then to the tank and was just resting the bag on the tank as it was the nearest thing apart from the floor. Won't make that mistake again.

They all seem pretty happy and content apart from me betta's that look well shes got stress lines and now looks like a tiger or something cos of them lol and he's havin a bubble nest frenzy the horny little bugger lol.