aquarium salt

[prawnman88]

has any one used this in ther fresh water tanks and does it help ?

 

[skinless]

used to use it, but now i dont and i havent noticed a difference. maybe if i had to treat a fish for illness, id add some but meh....im sure there are fish its really bad for. like SH and types of bottomfeeders.

 

[Vapor]

Only for treating disease. Some people say it helps increase the fishes slimecoat.

 

[AtomixIGN]

I use the recommended dosage when I first set up or when I have a loss or disease of any kind. But not when I do water changes. From what I've read, adding salt helps, but not keeping salt all the time.



I use it to clean often.


Recently I re-set up my eclipse hex 5 using old gravel, a piece of malaysian driftwood, and an old sponge filter. I added food and stress-zyme to cycle the tank. Bang! Fungus. Lots of it. I salted the hell out of the tank and changed the water a few times to get it out and now it's butters again.

 

[Miles]

Salt has a wide variety of beneficial properties, and I highly reccomend it for a number of situations. I don't reccomend constant use however, as the fish will become dependant on the higher salinity levels.

 

[prawnman88]

thank for the help i just added a few table spoons in both tanks seems that every one is fine including both shrimp groups in both tanks

 

[guppy]

I use it in most tanks at a rate of 1 tbsp/5 gallons

 

[zekni]

If you do use it, make sure you dissolve it in water before adding it to your tank, as it will burn the fish.

 

[dacox]

I use it in most tanks at a rate of 1 tbsp/5 gallons

Yep, same here. They seem to like it.

 

[MrRngr94]

My goldfish actually eat it as I'm pouring it out. lol The snail usually isn't too happy when he sees the salt carton come out.

But anyways, I use it all the time to help with the slimecoat and when treating illness. Plus I have a violet goby in there so I put some in to make him happy.