Salt and Live Plants

[coreyfleming]

What are you're thoughts on adding salt to a tank with live plants? My small catfish has ick. I'm raising the water temp--it's around 82 now and I thought about adding a little salt to the tank. But I thought I read somewhere that you shouldn't add salt to a tank with live plants. Help? (Also, any suggestions of getting rid of ick on a catfish would be great as well. My other fish look fine.)

 

[tyspot1000]

Welcome to AA!

No, Live plants do not like salt one bit, neither do Catfish. My best suggestion it to keep the temp raised to 86F for around 2 weeks (Heat speeds up the cycle of ich. 1 week is to get rid of most to all of it and the second week is for extra precautions and to Do a partial water change once a day (This will pick up the unwanted spore that have fallen off the fish).