I lost one of my koi 3 weeks ago to Costia, I was leary of salting
the water myself but tried it out of desperation. I salted to .4 % and
let it sit for 3 weeks. Lots of cleaning the filters because of dead
algae and plenty of aeration. I just completed 'scrapes' of about 7 of
my fish and there's no sign of costia or anything else now. The fish
are doing great, appetites are definatley up and I'm going to do water
changes to get it back down to .1% which I've been told is good for
long term health.

If you have a problem I can now personally recommend salt treatments
they worked like a charm. Though it sure sounds like a hell of a lot
of salt :-)

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:30:34 -0400, "BenignVanilla"
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Low salt levels have no down side. Ingrid
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I understand the medicinal values of salt...but is it safe to say there is
no down side to salting freshwater fish? Sounds a bit sketchy to me, at
least in front of newbies, myself included.

BV.