erk628
Fish Herder
Hello everyone, I have a few questions. I had two black finned sharks (catfish), when I bought them I thought they were freshwater because thats what they were being sold as and no one told be differently, then CFC informed me they were brackish fish. I had one for about two weeks he died tonight. I still have another one that I've had for about one week is is a lot smaller them the one that died. Right now I'm taking care of a ick problem the catfish is covered. I've been treating it now for three days. Also I made a mistake and changes from gravel to sand to soon so I'm dealing with a nitrite probelm which is 1pmm. So I do 10% water changes every day which might be weaking my meds. However there not falling off and I have had my water set at 86 F for the past 3 to 4 days. Anyways after my one died tonight I got a 10gallon tank out and set it up and started the cycle now. I'm going to make the 10 gallon a brackish tank for the catfish. I know this won't be a big enought tank for long but right now he's only about 3 ichs so it will be fine for now until I get a bigger one which I will be very soon. Now the thing is I want to move him to the brackish tank as soon as possible so he doesn't die like the other one did. I need some advise how I can speed the cycle up very fast. I was told about Bio-Spira, I read about this product and it says in a new tank you can add this and 24 hours later you can add fish. Now I would just do a regualr cycle but seeing how I need to get this fish in this tank as soon as possible I'm thinking of using Bio-Spira. What do you guys think? Also seeing how this cat was in frestwarer at the pet store and here how high of salt content should I start off with him. I read the pinned form by CFC about how to introduce them to it, but I'm not to sure how much salt to add for him like I said he is about 3 inchs if that.