Should I remove salt before adding medication?

[FishFriend0]

I have recently been having problems with columnaris bacteria, you can read more in this thread:

Platies dying.

A couple of months ago one of my platys was staying at the surface and gasping for air. It did this for quite a few weeks until one day. I arrived back from short holiday to see some family over Christmas and when I returned, it looked bloated and was floating. It did not really swim down for...

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I have ordered some Waterlife myxaxin which should arrive later today. However, I am not sure if I should remove the salt I have in the aquarium before I add the medication. I also need to do a water change soon but would rather do it before I add the medication as I don't really want to be replenishing medication. I have heard that you should remove salt slowly from the water but I don't think that my sick fish has enough time for the salt to be removed before adding the medication.
Thanks to everybody who has helped.

 

[MaloK]

What is your salt concentration at the moment ?

It's always a good idea to make a good water change before using medication. This helps to remove any accumulated waste products that could lower medication efficiency.

But there is no counter indication about using salt with Myxazin.

 

[FishFriend0]

I have about 21 tbsp of salt in 250 litres of water.

 

[MaloK]

Ok, that's is not a very high concentration. You could do a 33% water change before adding the meds.

 

[FishFriend0]

Ok, will do, thanks a lot!

 

[FishFriend0]

The medication has arrived now and on the bottle it says to half the dosage if there are fry in the tank. I have 2 fry that were born around a month ago and they are around 1cm long. Would you say I should half the dosage or do the normal one? I will attach a picture of one.

 

[MaloK]

I would take the chance to fry the fry. But make sure to save the tank and go with a normal dose.

You seem to have a lots of invertebrates all around your tank. It's not possible to identify them from the picture. If they start to die, keep an eye on ammonia and nitrite.

 

[FishFriend0]

Ok thanks