fishlover Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 My arowana has ich. I understand I can raise temperature to about 90F and add pickling salt (Sodium Chloride without iodine). I do not have pickling salt handy but I have a big bag of Potassium chloride. Can I use it instead? I appreciate your advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydoubleyou Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 I love arows, wish Ihad space for one! I wouldn't use potassium chloride to treat ich. Its used as fertilizer and to adjust ph mainly in planted and marine tanks. (Correct me if I'm wrong) Some people have has success treating ich with temperature alone. If Aro's can handle a 10-12 day period of temperatures from 82-86 you can go that way. Adding aquarium salt is supposed to help the fish produce more mucus coating therefore sloughing off the cysts that contain the parasite. Personally I've tried the heat and salt combo with no effect. Some strains are more virulent. Unfortunately i have had to use medication in order to treat my fish. Some frozen foods can contain ich, I believe brine shrimp to be the culprit in my tank. That and the fish was stressed. Removing stressors and adding stress coat during water changes has reduced his fin nipping as well. Good luck to you and your arowana. Post pics when fishy gets better Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Potassium chloride will not have any effect on pH and is not normally used as a fertilizer (too much chloride is not great for plants). An easy source for non-iodized salt is kosher salt. kaydoubleyou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svetilda Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 I don't have any advise but just to want to say sorry. Ich is not fun and nowdays is not so easy to treat anymore. Hope you will fight it over and your fish will be healthy and happy again! Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasshalffull Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I've had luck with feeding food soaked in garlic extract and raising temps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydoubleyou Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Garlic extract? Is it a liquid extract? Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svetilda Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I use garlic too. But I just soak sometimes food in it, not like for treatment, just more like vitamins. I use Seachem brand. gillznglass and kaydoubleyou 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasshalffull Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Same here I used the seachem brand kaydoubleyou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svetilda Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Any updates? How is your fish doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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