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mattlevy
PostPosted: Oct 3rd, '11, 02:04 
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Last week I noticed all of my fish had small spots on their fins. I tried to treat with some of the water dissolving tablets (terrible idea i now know) with no success, a few days later I found all of my fish had died :(

After some research I stumbled upon a safer way to treat that will not make all our fish unsafe to eat as well as probably making the plants unsafe to eat.

I made a post with all the information in my blog here
http://homebrewaquaponics.com/ichthyoph ... ltifiliis/

Hopefully this post can help save somebodies fish in the future.
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1. 50% water change
2. increase water temp to 85* F
3. Salt, aquarium salt, or sea salt. 2 teaspoons per gallon of water
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PostPosted: Oct 3rd, '11, 07:52 
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I don't think table salt is safe for use with fish. They might end up dead like in your case. In fact, sea salt is the one that is recommended.

And for treating ich, it is about concentrations of salt at about 6ppt. And maybe a short bath of slightly higher concentration before putting the fish into 6ppt salt water.

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table salt might contain iodine and anti-caking agents
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PostPosted: Oct 3rd, '11, 21:34 
Salt to 6ppt will do the job with Ich... and use pure sea salt... not table salt...
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PostPosted: Oct 4th, '11, 09:43 
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Please change it on your blog Matt... Don't want people killing their fish..
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2 teaspoons per gallon ?

Does not sound like much .
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PostPosted: Oct 5th, '11, 07:02 
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Ill change it, sorry about that guys, must have misread, or the guy I got info from made an error.
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Can anyone identify this as one of those diseases?
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Looks like fungus.
Ich is white spots.
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Looks like sap. Is it a bit 'cotton' like?

http://www.splashtastic-aquatics.net/sa ... ter-fungus
Also google saprolegnia and get images.
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PrudhamsAquaponics wrote:
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Can anyone identify this as one of those diseases?


What ever it is, it looks like the typical fungus that killed all my SP over two winters.
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