aquarium salt 4 native yea or nay

[camdenbreed]

salt or not

 

[camdenbreed]

large mouth bass sunnies crappie are in the tank

 

[NCStateFisher]

dont see what it would hurt but i wouldnt dose it regularly

 

[Gill Blue]

no

 

[only126db]

I have used a small amount of salt when I would get new sunnies or other scaled fish that have anchor worms (extremely common here) . I have seen no ill effects on them.

 

[Moontanman]

I say yes, i even put salt in my collecting buckets, I generally use about one cup sodium chloride to 50 gallons of water and about 2 cups of calcium chloride per 50 gallons of water. I use rain water to replace evaporation, and through partial water changes you can slowly decrease the salts content over time if you wish but i generally keep close to those concentrations all the time. Even soft water fish will do well like that, they just won't be able to breed, of course there are exceptions so know your fish before adding it to your tank. I'd like to give a shout out to quarantine tanks, always use one, keep it on at a higher salts content that the main tanks.

 

[JIM]

Ive used salt in the past extensively, and also had tanks that never got salt, i think its more of a choice thing, never noticed any difference either way.