Salt and methylene blue

[dwarfgourami]

Just read in another thread not to put salt in a tank if medicating with anything containing methylene blue. Help and bother, I have just done this! Why not? Is it dangerous? Or does it take away the effect?
Please answer quickly, I'm all worried now. What should I do?

 

[WILDER]

Don't no but just remove the salt with a water change then add the methylene blue back to the water removed, can i ask why you are using the methylene blue.

 

[WILDER]

http/www.novalek.com/kpd28.htm

 

[dwarfgourami]

This is the livebearer tank with the parasites in my other thread. It turns out methylene blue is one of the active ingredients in the medication recommended by the man in the specialist lfs (well, I sort of guessed that when my tank turned green). He said this was the only medication he had had any success with, so I felt it was a choice between trying it and watching the fish die.

Anyone else, do you know if the salt is dangerous and needs to be removed?

Don't no but just remove the salt with a water change then add the methylene blue back to the water removed, can i ask why you are using the methylene blue.

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[WILDER]

Can you find the thread so i can take a look.

 

[black angel]

Was it me that said you cant use it with methylene blue? I'm still trying to clarify if it is the blue or the malachite green.
I know it deffinately cant be used with malachite green and i'm trying to find out why not for both or either.
I havent read your other post yet about the livebearers. Just leave it as it is and i will hopefully have an answer back soon. How much salt did you use with it?

 

[dwarfgourami]

A small amount, 1 tablespoon, it's a Juwel 60 tank (so c. 12 gallons). Didn;t want to overdo anything as it's my fry tank.

Was it me that said you cant use it with methylene blue? I'm still trying to clarify if it is the blue or the malachite green.
I know it deffinately cant be used with malachite green and i'm trying to find out why not for both or either.
I havent read your other post yet about the livebearers. Just leave it as it is and i will hopefully have an answer back soon. How much salt did you use with it?

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[dwarfgourami]

Thanks for the link Wilder!
Pleased to have it confirmed that it is safe with fry (the man in the shop said so, but you never know).
Once the salt issue has been resolved I might be able to sleep calmly.
Funnily enough Smudge has been looking a lot perkier since the stuff went in, wouldn't have thought it would act that quickly, only put it in this afternoon. Have fed extra peas to help her flush any dead worms through the system.

 

[WILDER]

So they have internal parasites, very hard to cure, only affective med is the pig worming tablet if you can get hold of it, best thing to do is i no this is going to sound awful but put the affected fish down, and strip he tank down and start again.

 

[WILDER]

http/inkmkr.com/Fish/CamallanusTreatment/

 

[dwarfgourami]

Thanks, I got this message before. As I explained in that thread I am still not 100% sure of my diagnosis (85%?), so do find it hard to put down fish that are still in quite good shape.
Contacted my lfs (the one who knows what he is talking about), he agreed it is a difficult one but said he had had some measure of success with this medication.
As I see it I have nothing to lose. If I move the fry to strip down the tank, I risk carrying the infection to my other tank, so might as well treat the whole tank. If they all die, then obviously I shall strip down the tank and disinfect it. If not- well, I'll just treat this tank as a leper colony: nothing new goes in it, and nobody from it is allowed into another tank until I am sure they are not carrying any nasties.

So they have internal parasites, very hard to cure, only affective med is the pig worming tablet if you can get hold of it, best thing to do is i no this is going to sound awful but put the affected fish down, and strip he tank down and start again.

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[WILDER]

Good luck anyway.