Sodium Chloride with symbol NaCl, is the main chemical in table salt. Table salt also usually contains small amounts iodine and calcium silicate which aren't good for fish.
Help my green arow!!
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I pretty much have to agree with Commfreak. Table salt does contain impurities which may not be ideal (I'd worry more about the anti-caking agents they add than sodium iodide though), and if convenient you might use rock salt or kosher salt instead, but as noted above I don't think a week's exposure to the low concentration recommended would be harmful.
I am skeptical of the recommendation to add that much salt all at once though. Now, I don't keep arowana myself, but for freshwater fish I do know about I wouldn't change the salinity that much in one go (additions every 6-8 hours over two days is what I would do, until reaching that total amount). Some fish can tolerate more than that, and maybe this fish can, but I'm not sure.
When adding salt, you should try to mix it in water first. High local concentrations and/or the fish trying to eat falling grains of salt may be harmful. A fish that big likely won't try to eat it, but still dropping grains on its skin can cause a sort of chemical burn.
I'm really not sure what the guy with the motor-scooter avatar was talking about at any point
Well, except for the last post where Captain Obvious hijacked his account.
I am skeptical of the recommendation to add that much salt all at once though. Now, I don't keep arowana myself, but for freshwater fish I do know about I wouldn't change the salinity that much in one go (additions every 6-8 hours over two days is what I would do, until reaching that total amount). Some fish can tolerate more than that, and maybe this fish can, but I'm not sure.
When adding salt, you should try to mix it in water first. High local concentrations and/or the fish trying to eat falling grains of salt may be harmful. A fish that big likely won't try to eat it, but still dropping grains on its skin can cause a sort of chemical burn.
I'm really not sure what the guy with the motor-scooter avatar was talking about at any point
Well, except for the last post where Captain Obvious hijacked his account.
My original advice to the OP was to post a picture and wait for other valuable pieces of advice similar to your post and not take the first piece of advice given as the definitive solution to his problem.
Which in this case was 50% water changes with 1.5 KG of unspecified salt.
Which in this case was 50% water changes with 1.5 KG of unspecified salt.
