parasites in pond

[size=large]I read that one can use salt to get rid of parasites in ponds, have you ever tried?[/size]

 

Yes salt does kill pond parasites, it also kills fish, plants, and anything else that is in the pond.

The "myth" if you will, comes from giving a fish a salt bath, it has to be the right salt and correct amount. Leave the parasites the fish will eat them.

 

Hi miraflores
when you say you have parasites do you know which ones they are it would be much better if you could to remove the fish into a tank and let the parasites die of rather than treat the pond other than that it may be to much trouble to empty the bond give it a good clean out and leave empty for a week
Hugh

 

Hugh, you have given a suggestion, then a reason not to do it. It doesn't work anyway.
If its a fish parasite they will go with the fish, then return, most folk call larve "parasites" Fish will eat these.

 

Hi watergardenthe resin I suggested to transfer the fish to tank was that it would be easier to treat the fish that way, the parasites I was thinking of were gill flukes and skin flukes, leeches fish louse treated in the tank rather than destroying the ecosystem in the pond what maybe left would die of without a host the leech lasting the longest
Hugh
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