Costia, Trichondella, and Chichondia? VS. NaCl

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Quote: Originally Posted by ranskye HI again all, been a long time hey. i love salt cause i hate chemicals. i use chemicals as a very last resort and then i only use the one that kills what i want it to. actually i use one only these days. i also have access to salt water on the farm so its near enough to free. if i could read out the safety data on some of the chemcials around you would be a bit more concerend about using them so much..you know like we get cancer and then wonder why..some of these things build up in our system and cause problems so beware ok. its quiet normal for some bugs to be on the fish, the trick would be to try and limit what troublesome bugs get into your system and quarantine and check/ treat em when you buy a new fish in. i use salt as a matter of standard practise when i buy in new fish and it dosent hurt them. but you know it doesnt work on everything. ive tried killing argulas (crab louse) with salt and the thing wouldnt drop of my koi, i did a quick experiment, i raised the salinity to about 15-20 PPT for 20 minutes and it still didnt die. people may overly worrry about salt killing the koi. well you should if youve got heaps expensive koi, just monitor them..pretty easy. but ive had my broodfish in as high as 14PPT for months..by accident though..i had a leaking salt pond on a higher level.. but i was rather shocked when i took a reading and then kinda surprised they survived. now that will kill many things that live in fresh water wont it but i didnt kill my crab louse problem, for that i use trifloron but only on the fish when i get outbreaks. i refuse to throw that stuff about in big amounts my ponds. id advise to take your fish, check em over with a scrape and give them a salt bath up of about 8 ppt for about half a day, just keep air to em and keep an eye on them. then check em again for the bugs, what bugs are left you might want to look at using a chemical. before you do read up on their lifecycle. you may save this procedure if you can find the salinity tolerances of different pathogens on the net or somewhere.. for those of you that may worry about 8 ppt and tell me its stupid to do that, i often run my ponds at that amount if i have problems with various disease then i do a half water exchange after a few days of that. it works great for me and i dont lose fish from it. good luck and be sure to let people know what happened so they may learn something from your experience.

Hmm this is intresting, but I havent heard this before.