Adding Salt to snakehead tank
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Depending on species (some are more salt tolerant than others), routine applications of salt for preventive and curative measures (including dips) should pose no problems in the maintenance of SHs.
Oddball;742377; said:
I was under the impression that salt was a no-no for all, as they were all highly intolerant of salt. If you have information to the contrary that would be good news, because of the synergistic effect of salt and many medications, in both prophylactic and treatment terms. Obviously in my case I am interesed in any data regarding micropeltes. Do you have any specific information?
I have done quite a bit of research on this ever since many years a go a friend of mine killed his dwarf SH by adding salt to cure some fin rot and killed his fish. The best think is to take it as they don’t like salt I have never had to use salt with my fish over the years and don’t like using it with them. Yes some are more salt tolerant but it’s just not worth the risk how much and witch ones. I will also let you into another fact, The New York State and environmentalists came up with this idea. The state environmental agency planners may try to flood a lake they have a SH problem with sea water, hoping to kill off the snakeheads and some other fish that also have a low tolerance for salt, but sparing other species. But yes some snakeheads can tolerate salinity but some of the small ones its death
