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Salt in Pond to treat disease
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I have a couple of fish with ulcers , also white fungusy stuff growing on them, i used Melafix After using Melafix the goldfish started to get what can be best described as black / blue / dark red colour around the fungus areas.. I will get a picture if i can, It looks pretty Ugly , it almost looks like brusing?? The fish seems ok ish it isnt too lazy it comes up with the other for food although i havent caught it eating yet I read somewhere that Salt was a goood all round treatment. My Pond is just 1000L big , how much Salt do i need to add. If possible Teaspoon / Tablespoons would help as i dont have a good set of scales W |
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Salt in Pond to treat disease
My calculator says your pond is 268 gallons, which would take about 2.5
pounds of salt per addition to give 0.1%. For fish with parasites, it is recommended that the salt level be raised to 0.3%. Get a salt level test kit and verify the salt level is above 0.3 for a couple weeks and then dilute by water changes to 0.1 or below. 0.3% salt will kill any submerged plants and will stunt the growth of some others, so you may want to take the plants out of the pond during the treatment. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Waseem" wrote in message m... Hi I have a couple of fish with ulcers , also white fungusy stuff growing on them, i used Melafix After using Melafix the goldfish started to get what can be best described as black / blue / dark red colour around the fungus areas.. I will get a picture if i can, It looks pretty Ugly , it almost looks like brusing?? The fish seems ok ish it isnt too lazy it comes up with the other for food although i havent caught it eating yet I read somewhere that Salt was a goood all round treatment. My Pond is just 1000L big , how much Salt do i need to add. If possible Teaspoon / Tablespoons would help as i dont have a good set of scales W |
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