salt treatment for ich

[sharkbait]

Just read the thread below that cardinals don't like salt treatments.
Guess what... I have six ichy cardinals in the tank (and some guppies a gourami and a few larger tetras)

So.... do I avoid the salt treatment and just go with the ich killing potions?

 

[Alien Anna]

I just answered this on another section. No, don't put salt in with cardinals.

 

[Jaws]

well i put in 1 teaspoon of salt per gallon a couple hours ago, and my neons are doing fine. so is my black moor.

 

[Kossy]

Well you really shouldn't they are quite intolerant like myself and alien answered on the other page...yes go with the medicines

 

[Angel Lady]

jungle makes a great scaless fish medicine for ich well it is just like the other 2 said kozzy and anna the salt will kill them fish or burn them real bad one.I have lost a rainbow shark that I loved very much because my boyfriend put salt in the tank without me knowing he didnt know that he was killing them he thought he was helping them out . It took me for ever to get him to tell me that he out the salt in the tank.

 

[Jaws]

i saw on petfish.net a picture of a cardinal, and a picture of a neon. they look identical to me except for the fact that the cardinal pic is drawn, and the neon is an actual pic. as far as i know, i have neons.. they could be cardinal tetras though seeing as how the LFS sold me a black moor and said it was a mollie

in other words, i put 1 teaspoon of salt per gallon with mY "neons" or maybe cardinals... and theyre fine.

edit- i just saw in the fungus post that cardinals are bottom dwellers? well my "neons" are always hanging around the bottom... so much so that i have to get their food down there... so IF theyre cardinals, they are perfectly fine with 1 teaspoon of salt... at least mine are

 

[Kossy]

saw on petfish.net a picture of a cardinal, and a picture of a neon. they look identical to me except for the fact that the cardinal pic is drawn, and the neon is an actual pic

Cardinals have the red extending to the end of the tail and neons just around 3/4 up.