You know Carole,I owe you an apology. What a moron I am, first off I am trying to kill your fish with kindness and the wrong type of salt and I dont even ask how YOU are feeling.Please excuse my manners. I read epsom salts will help draw it out as opposed to table salt which will add to the bloat, petfish.net I think it was, its good for the fish but is somewhat stressful so it suggested a coupe of dips per day and the fish will show fast improvement. a good read and again I'm sorry, I hope I'm not becoming one of those people I cant stand cause I dont know how well that would work out.