ick on mbu which salt ?
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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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ick on mbu which salt ?
i have read the article in the library about freshwater ick and i was unsure which sort of salt to use . Is it marine salt or just ordinary aquarium salt ?
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Re: ick on mbu which salt ?
"Aquarium salt" is a meaningless term. There is no standard "aquarium salt".
FW Ich needs sodium chloridfe, NaCl, plain ordinary table salt. Morton's or any other standard grocery story brand is economical and also suitable. Iodide at the levels present in table salt for human consumption is perfectly safe for fish - who also have an iodide requirement, just as humans do.
Don't get confused by the many old wives tales put forth by LFS and others without any real knowledge or information. This hobby is packed with misinformation and mythology, unfortunately.
FW Ich needs sodium chloridfe, NaCl, plain ordinary table salt. Morton's or any other standard grocery story brand is economical and also suitable. Iodide at the levels present in table salt for human consumption is perfectly safe for fish - who also have an iodide requirement, just as humans do.
Don't get confused by the many old wives tales put forth by LFS and others without any real knowledge or information. This hobby is packed with misinformation and mythology, unfortunately.
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Re: ick on mbu which salt ?
thankyou for the info i had no idea it was normal table salt, i suppose the lfs are to blame again for the misinformation, there are so many contradictions in the hobby that it is hard to know what is right and wrong and i think it all comes down to experience which is why it is so grate to have this forum where i know i can count on someone having the correct answers to our problems
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Re: ick on mbu which salt ?
Of course--they want you do buy THEIR salt!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: ick on mbu which salt ?
the lfs really make me mad 
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Re: ick on mbu which salt ?
I cannot really fault a LFS for trying to make a sale -they are a business and if they do not make money, they go away. But operating your own tanks wisely and at the same time practically means not accepting the LFS staff's word on much. Just as with any purchase, it is up to the buyer to make the wise choice. That is one of the great benefits of the web, but also one of its weaknesses - there is just as much bad info on the web as there is good - telling the two apart is not easy for anyone. This hobby is loaded with myths and outright lies; the LFS cannot shoulder all the blame for that.
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