Am i right in understanding that corry catfish and Clownloaches should not be treated with salt ( even salt bath's)?

Your views please!

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yes thats right, a salt bath could easily kill a Cory and probably a Clown too. What makes you ask Rob?

It's partly to do with being scaleless, but its not correct to label all scaleless fish as solt intolerant, well thats what i learnt on another site

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I have for some time noticed a couple of discus breathing realy rappid i would do a waterchange and they be ok then they would breath real fast I treated the whole tank with Discus wormer plus( this kills gill flukes and internal parisites) then one blue discus went into hiding and off colour so i isolated him and gave him a very strong salt bath !


when i say strong i mean strong! got the dosage from a discus website and its at 3 table spoons to a gallon water!

times are steped as fish the needs to build up to the 30 minutes Watched very closley for breathing !!!!!

airstone running to boost oxygen

evening 1 for 7 minutes
evening 2 for 15 minutes
evening 3 for 30 minutes breathing back nice and slow and looking 100% healthy
tonight i did a 4th treatment 30 minutes .and he didnt want to come out !!

tonight i also treated all of my discus to a salt bath of 10 minutes as they were showing signs off rappid gill movment/gasping and breathing super fast.

Impressed with the results on the blue fish i wonderd what i could treat the other fish with to get rid as i think i have a parisite boom in my mixed comunity tank?

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i also just used the discus wormer for my community tank, as i noticed a few guppies had gone skinny, so wanted to act fast in case of internal parasites.

If you are referring to gill flukes with the heavy breathing, then the meds should kills them, you know it can take 7-10 days for the meds to work dont you? According to some sites i read about, and if there are a lot of flukes it will take a further dose 7-days after the intial dose.

From reading its also relatively safe to "double up" with the wormer, i used x2.5 dose on my community tank.

As for the Cory's forget the salt, it wont help.

Are you like me, and sometimes seeing somethnig thats not there? What signs of parasites are there in your community tank?

Lets take it from there Popey.

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If you mean the discus were in the community tank, how long has it been since you treated the community tank.

What wormer was it? Did you have to mix it in boiling water first?

I got mine from Plymouth Discus

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you abandoned me, i stayed up to reply to this.

how do you complain about the Pope? The Vatican will probably brush it under the carpet like it never happened

ha ha ha :

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all 6 discus 1 golden ram were breething panting with open mouth and flared gills corrys and clownloaches from time to time breeth rapid not so worried about them to be honest!

i have one discus in the isolation and hes had salt bath 4 evenings and has made a full recovery. so i know this does the trick ( i wormed them about a week ago and deliberatly didnt water change for a few days! Its catch 22 do you worm them then have to redose for waterchanges? or leve it to work in which case other toxins will be building up!

Im using the same as you Wormer Plus. i bought mine from devotedly discus as it was cheaper then plymouth and i was also geting a PH pen!

my plan for tonight is as follows....

remove all discus to a holding tank ,might even remove the other fish to other plastic tub , wipe tank insides with bit of filter floss and do a masive clean out. syphon /rake sand and then only part refill. do a 20 minute salt bath on discus timed and observed constant and then return to tank.
tomorrow i will replace the remaining water to fill tank.

sory i didnt stay up late but it was not a emergency

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3 tablespoons of salt per gallon works out to about 30% marine water strength (salinity wise) i think (very roughly)

thats if you factor 1 tablespoon to be about 15grams of salt, which i think it is, if its a semi-heaped tablespoon

Glad it's working for you.

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they use to say 2 tablespoons but due to fish being raised on farms that use salt more and more i read on discus forum that 3 spoons is needed to be efective

and 4 baths have totaly changed the one discus !......blooming nerv racking doing the first bath !

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after one 10 minute salt treatment




will post again in 3 days

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