Ionic silver as an ich treatment?

[425nm]

For the love of your fish/coral STOP dosing a heavy metal that you can't measure!!

Silver is definitely toxic to freshwater fish (it inhibits the Na+/K+ and ATPase used by the gills in osmoregulation) and is probably toxic to marine fish let alone invertes.
On top of this its toxic at the range of 0.01-0.17MICROGRAMS/L of water. You can very very easily hit that level without realizing.

If you can't quantify it, don't put it in your tank (or your body).
Edit: I'm sure there's a good chance that it'll kill ich but also lots of other things in your tank.

[hfp75]

Never know if you don't try it..... Any research on this idea ?

[RuGlu6]

Originally Posted by hfp75

Never know if you don't try it.....

my point exactly.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by 425nm

For the love of your fish/coral STOP dosing a heavy metal that you can't measure!!

Silver is definitely toxic to freshwater fish (it inhibits the Na+/K+ and ATPase used by the gills in osmoregulation) and is probably toxic to marine fish let alone invertes.
On top of this its toxic at the range of 0.01-0.17MICROGRAMS/L of water. You can very very easily hit that level without realizing.

If you can't quantify it, don't put it in your tank (or your body).
Edit: I'm sure there's a good chance that it'll kill ich but also lots of other things in your tank.

Couldn't of put it better myself, do not dose something that you can not measure. You won't know if you don't try but you sure won't be happy if you kill your whole tank and have to start brand new.

I hope this photo puts something into perspective for you.

[windcoast reefs]

Seems like a bad idea to me, disaster waiting to happen.

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Originally Posted by RuGlu6

my point exactly.

I personally swear by herbtana! Only stuff that has worked for me so far :-)

[RuGlu6]

Definitely bad for Fresh Water one shrimp died, snail and Beta fish are ok in 0.5 gal tank. And i added like half a cup there
water is cloudy so, it was bad idea. Did large water change and added bacterial culture to re-populate.
All the mushrooms and leather coral are recovered in Quarantine tank.
Moorish Idol is OK recovering from ich. Ionic Silver did not make any difference to ich as someone (rightly so ) mentioned that silver ions will only kill pathogens and not parasites which are more complex organisms.

[RuGlu6]

Originally Posted by 425nm

For the love of your fish/coral STOP dosing a heavy metal that you can't measure!!

Silver is definitely toxic to freshwater fish (it inhibits the Na+/K+ and ATPase used by the gills in osmoregulation) and is probably toxic to marine fish let alone invertes.
On top of this its toxic at the range of 0.01-0.17MICROGRAMS/L of water. You can very very easily hit that level without realizing.

If you can't quantify it, don't put it in your tank (or your body).
Edit: I'm sure there's a good chance that it'll kill ich but also lots of other things in your tank.

Fresh water fish was the only tank that i Didn't try it on because it is upstairs. LOL
Salt water tanks are all ok fish, corals inverts etc. Water is super clean Ozone like type effect.
Wait, i did try in on one tiny fresh water tank in the kitchen, tank has one beta fighting fish and one Japonica shrimp, both are fine after 3 days.


If we think about how many people are killed by the big Farma using approved drugs: the # is ~160 000/year in US. And it was "Doctor Recommended"

argyria was only found in 300 cases in 3000 years. So compare to today's approved medicine its much safer.
It works , non toxic and way better that Frankenstein bacteria producing antibiotics.


Heard about the colloidal silver 'Blue Man?' Here's why the scare story is public relations fraud
This makes sense when considering that thousands, if not millions, of people take ionic silver or silver colloids solutions on a regular basis without incident, and none of them are blue. Argyria, after all, is a very rare condition that only seems to come about as a result of consuming improperly-made silver solutions that contain too many silver particles that are too large in size, and that were made using the addition of salt.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035219_co...#ixzz2HlHTMLuD