Tums, can you post a link to the food that was medicated? (or what you did to medicate the fish)
Esshup here you can order medicated feed thru the local coop. I mostly used the Terramycin sinking feed with channel catfish.
UF Medicated Feed (1995) Tums
Where would you find medicated feed?
Pat I can order my medicated sinking feed thru the local farmer coop here. It comes in 50# bags. The only 2 types of medicated I ever used are on the link I posted for Esshup. The sinking feed takes a lot longer than the floating feed to get out of the fishes system (you are supposed to wait like a month for consumption of fish). I already feed a mix of sinking and floating feed. The biggest reason I mix it 50/50 is that I can see that fish are still feeding (not to sick to feed) and it is what they are somewhat used to.
When you used medicated feed did you know exactly what pathogen you were dealing with or was this a it can't hurt approach.
I can't imagine adding enough salt to a pond to have a therapeutic effect. Even my 1/10th acre ponds would take a few hundred pounds of salt.
Cecil understand most of my experience is in a high density CC environment. First the most important thing to due if you are going to feed medicated is start the treatment even before you have a official diagnoses. If you wait for the 100% diagnoses the fish may have got to sick to feed adequately on the medicated feed. That saving a few dollars on medicated feed then just got really expensive.
Cecil that is a misconception of using salt. Salt can help even on the PPM scale. Say your 1/10 acre pond had 1 acre feet of water (or 10 ft deep avg) and you have a Brown Blood disease problem. Your NO2 is 10 PPM & CI is 20 PPM. You would only need to add 45# of salt to prevent some fish from getting BBD or 180# to treat it. I am not saying I use salt as a dip to treat fish. Salt in lower levels can help prevent disease from spreading just like an aspirin can help prevent a heart attack. Also note using salt all the time will make disease also build up a immunity. Salt in aquaculture is a friend.
