added wrong salt?

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to help my arowanas fins recover i added salt but maybe the wrong kind. i read on a site that salt without additives like potassium or iodide is ok. the salt i used is Morton salt with the umbrella girl on the front. it reads no iodide added but the back says salt,calcium silicate (read quote)

a site says "Sodium Silicoaluminate - Non toxic to fish and humans, another form of this is Zeolite. Zeolite is used in fresh and saltwater aquaria to trap ammonia. Also, Calcium Silicate- a mixture of Limestone and Diatomaceous earth, both harmless (unless inhaled in dry form) and used in aquaria. Limestone to raise pH and decorate rift lake, saltwater and brakish tanks. D.E. is used as a filtration aid to polish water.
I just don't see any harmful things in tablesalt. And it's great on hot buttered corn on the cob ;b"

what do you guys think
 
Even Iodized will not hurt your fish.....This is a highly debated topic. If you search the forums you will find many many "Salt yes or no" and "Iodized bad for my fish" threads. I have researched conflicting answers. I even read the other day someone saying "Do not use aquarium salt, it is bad"....I was like WTH???? But my answer would be to use salt labeled as aquarium salt just to be safe and it is so cheap.
 
It's always better to use non Iodized salt in your aquariums but theres no need to panic if you do. It's not going to kill your fish and to be honest would take a large steady diet to even do any long term damage.

That said....stick to aquarium salt...it's hardly the most expencive thing you have to buy for your fish so why pinch pennies?
 
:iagree:

Mortons salt can be used to help aid in recovery of bloat or dropsy. I just treated my Balzanis and they are all healthy now. I would just use Aquarium salt and if bloat or dropsy is ever a problem then read Oddballs 'sticky' in the disease forum.

The Mortons salt actually helps the fish digest their food easier. Kinda like Ex-lax for fish but I would recommend long term use.
 
I use Mortons Sea Salt....

Here's some googled salt factoids:

Table salt has an ingredient added to it to adsorb moisture so it will stay free clump free in damp weather. It does not dissolve in water and can cause cloudiness in solutions if sufficiently large quantities are used. See list of additives below...don't know what long term aquarium effects are???


The Morton brand of Coarse Kosher Salt has "yellow prussiate of soda" added as an anti-caking agent but unlike other anti-caking agents it does not cause cloudiness in solution.


"An anticaking agent in salt is denoted in the ingredients for example as "anti-caking agent (554)", which is sodium aluminosilicate, a man-made product. This product is present in many commercial table salts as well as dried milks, egg mixes, sugar products, and flours. In Europe, sodium ferrocyanide (535) and potassium ferrocyanide (536) are more common anticaking agents in table salt. Natural anticaking agents used in more expensive table salt include calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate.

Anticaking agents must be insoluble in water. They function either by adsorbing excess moisture or by coating particles and making them water repellent. Calcium silicate (CaSiO3), a commonly used anti-caking agent, added to e.g table salt, adsorbs both water and oil."
 
Scorponok;1419786; said:
1 WC of 30g, or 2 WC of 15g, or 3 WC of 10g....you get an idea.
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Actually, a water change of 15 gallons would get rid of 50% of the salt. This would leave 15 gallons of old water and 15 gallons of new water (50% of the original salt). Another 15 gallon water change would remove 7.5 gallons of the original water and 7.5 gallons of the 'new' water from the last water change (25% more of the original salt or 75% of the total original salt). And so on and so forth. It would take a few water changes to get rid of the salt completely. :)
 
As said above you can only reduce the percentage of the salt in your tank. It will take seven 50% water changes to reduce the percentage of the salt in your tank to below 1%.
 
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