Salt and PANDA corydoras

[Theresa_M]

Hello, wondering about your experiences adding salt to aquariums to promote healing, etc. for community tanks that include panda corydoras. I feel like I nearly killed mine by adding one tablespoon of salt per 5 gallons (they were acting so poorly after one day and seemed to be having skin issues that I moved them out immediately). Now I’m afraid to try again, but think my main display tank could benefit from it (perhaps at a lower dose?).

I cannot find anything specifically speaking to pandas and I know that optimal water parameters can vary greatly between types of cories. I have seen other types called out specifically for how well they handle salt but never pandas. What’s been your experience? Thanks!

 

 

[Colu]

 start to treat with a lower dose of salt and gradually increase the amount if they have a reaction do a water change to dilute the salt

[Squeegee79]

Also, if you just dumped the salt in, the water right on the bottom of the tank could have a very high salinity until it gets mixed up. That could bother bottom fish for sure.

[Theresa_M]

10 minutes ago, Squeegee79 said:

Also, if you just dumped the salt in, the water right on the bottom of the tank could have a very high salinity until it gets mixed up. That could bother bottom fish for sure.

Yep. That’s what I did! Dangit.

[FrozenFins]

because your not fighting a disease, don't do a full treatment. All you need is to have it help with the healing of your fish. Read the back label of your salt package and see what they recceomend for healing wounds.