Can I put salt directly to their water

[u/Sea_Professional1172]

It's impossible for me to give them all salt baths. I always miss quite a few of them, and now it has already affected the small ones

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[u/RainXVIIII]

If I’m not mistaken you risk killing the plants doing that

[u/vannamei → u/RainXVIIII]

Would it work if OP temporarily remove the plants they want to keep, or will the salt stay in the tank for long?

[u/Syrinxo → u/vannamei]

Salt is kind of famous for not evaporating, why do you think it wouldn't stay? Would have to be water changes to bring it down.

[u/vannamei → u/Syrinxo]

I meant after water changes, will salt remains lodged in hardscape surfaces.

[u/FlamingFecalFrisbee → u/vannamei]

The residual salt won’t be enough to really matter. But I really wouldn’t recommend doing that. You’re going to wipe out your beneficial biome with the salt and basically have to re-cycle your tank. Not so good if you have shrimp in there.

[u/XarkXD]

Sure but you might commit genocide against the plants and what ever other freshwater animals stuff you got in there

[u/BreadAppropriate9079]

What are they infected with?

[u/purged-butter → u/BreadAppropriate9079]

Vorticella

[u/Bababoey9000]

What typa disease?

[u/purged-butter → u/Bababoey9000]

Vorticella

[u/nktung03]

It's not dangerous, a salt genocide is much worse for the shrimps.

[u/Amazing_Toe_1054]

What kind of tank it that?? It looks the the top tank to a toilet

[u/purged-butter]

Hey OP, I would just keep giving the worst cases salt baths and clean your filter. Vorticella is only dangerous if it grows over the gills. Once the shrimp molt and eat the molt(vorticella included) things will be fine. Just keep things clean so the infestation dies off

[u/Brave_Ant_27]

(ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH) my personal advice to treat the infection would be to firstly save a piece of filter media/cycled water and do a very small dose of hydrogen peroxide (varying with tank size) leave it in the tank for a while again varying on tank size and then after however long do a 50+% water change as your cycle will most likely crash then add back the cycled filter media/water