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Hi Duncan,

Do you happen to know if salted water & Sabbactisun go together OK ?

I have large Chagoi undergoing treatment for abrasion damage, in 100 gallon tank
Fish introduced at 10c & progressively cranked up to 22c (14 days)
Filtrated & water salted(iaw your book) at onset.

Sabbactisun introduced daily when temp: at 22c at prescribed dosage.
When dosing 4 days later fish reacted violently & commenced flashing.
Obviously severely stressed so I immediately transferred 40% water out & commenced drip feed of fresh water to maintain constant temp:
Fish progressively quietened as water change took effect.
I have stopped adding Sabbactisun.


I am progressively weakening the salt/Sabbactisun mixture by constant
drip feed/loss & will then re-commence Sabbactisun treatment.

I would emphasise that there has been no overdosage of salt or Sabbactisun

Do you have any thoughts ?

kingfisher

Kingfisher
as i remember i used salt at 0.3% and got no adverse reaction, of course your assuming the current sabbactisun is still the same formulation as it was back then..

All i can say is there is a lot going on in your 100 gallons making it very restrictive and all fish react differently, so its entirely plausible your fish just don't like the mixture.

Think about it, you have 100 gallons and crowded into that 0.3% salt and a high concentration of sab the TDS would be through the roof and O2 sat's possibly through the floor so its no surprise your fish is decided to bawlk at the prospect of spending more time in there the high TDS and salt would be an irritant to the fish and is possibly why it started to flash
i dont think your fish was in any danger its just did not like the mixture and the high TDS with low-ish O2

just my thoughts
dunc

Very grateful for that,thanks Duncan.

I can now understand my error

I discontinued drip feed/loss & commenced
20% daily water changes & fish has now improved
& stabilised to a reasonable degree. As you say it is a hostile environment for him.

i am convinced that it is a significant irritant but it has accelerated healing & certainly is effective
in that respect.

If & when I have to use it again I will reduce dosage rate & stay well away from salt.

kingfisher