Ammonia Burn?

[thelastbetta]

I got a new all yellow boy today but the end of his cadual and anal fin looks as if it's been burnt. Is this ammonia burn? Is so how do I clear it? just clean water or is there some sort of med?

 

[sukie]

I would do 100% water changes, a pinch of aquarium salt for 5days and see if it clears up.

 

[thelastbetta]

The burn isn't from my tank, I just bought him yesterday with it, he was in like a 5 gallon with albino cories all over the bottom of the tank (like ALL over, you couldn't even see the bottom of the tank there were so many).

So just some salt will do it then?

 

[sukie]

Yup and good water changes (make sure it's aquarium salt okay )

 

[Guille]

sorry for this question but what you mean when you said aquarium salt???

 

[liz2]

you get it from aqua shops, dont use ordinary kitchen salt it has different things in. just go and ask for aquarium salt its very cheap!

 

[sukie]

See good thing I said something!

 

[thelastbetta]

Okay thanks. It doesn't necessarily have to be aquarium salt. Common table salt is suitable, however it should be non-iodized and contain no additives.

 

[ElectricMayhem]

Table salt's fine for a few days, but if you're using it any longer than that [I always use it for Zoot, every water change] then go for the aquarium salt. Table salt, even non-iodized, has other anti-caking ingredients like potassium iodide, dextrose, ferric ammonium citrate, silicon dioxide, sodium ferrocyanide, magnesium silicate, magnesium carbonate, propylene glycol, aluminum calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate and calcium phosphate. These things help to keep the salt from sticking together and going lumpy and to help it pour more easily. Aquarium salt doesn't have these things, which is why it's chunky and you have to crush it up when it gets a bit of moisture in it. Over time these things are not what you want your fishies to be exposed to.

There are probably a million different opinions on the use of table salt vs aquarium salt, this is just mine