Personally, I add salt to both of my tanks. I only do it on water changes and even then, I add it slowly. All my fish are happy and healthy. They haven't had health issues in a long time. The salt also helps the slimecoat and electrolytes. I haven't had any adverse effects from using salt. My LFS recommends salt. Just be sure you don't add too much.
Aquarium salt,safe or no?
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for me a good indicator that im adding too much salt, it gathers up on the lights as the water evaporate
I don't use salt, and never have. It's certainly not essential. Good, clean fresh water has always been enough for my fish to generally stay very healthy and grow well.
Just to keep the thread going, Ill add my two cents. I added salt because my fish were not looking healthy. I added salt, just yesterday and notice a huge difference already. More active, actually healthier looking. Don't ask why or how, just my observation.
