[jaysee]

You could just raise the temp to at least 86 for 2 weeks. Not that you can't use salt, but I find it easier to just raise the temp.


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[jaysee]

With an elevated temp, and medication, a week is usually all that's required. It should go away within 4 days, but go the full week to be sure.

It'll be gone with or without the medication with the elevated heat, just as it will be gone with or without the salt. Heat alone will cure the fish.




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[jaysee]

That is correct, getting the temp to at least 86 disrupts the life cycle, which kills off the parasite.

I have absolute faith the heat treatment. I administer it to every new fish while they are in quarantine. I use 88. Goldfish, dojo loaches, Denison barbs (back when they were $25 each), they have all had it. Almost 50 species have received the treatment, including cold water fish - I haven't found a fish that could not handle the treatment. Is it stressful? Possibly, but it's not like medications and salt are not. Salt is an irritant to freshwater fish, and meds are, well, meds. In my opinion, changing the temperature of the water is the easiest and least stressful method.


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