I am not sure what rock salt is. Use the Aquarium salt ( there is one marketed for FW tanks ). Kitchen salt is not good since it contains iodine.
oh no my green has a protruding anus
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alright miguel, thanks again. i just finished my WC. thanks for the advice, by the way is the case of my arowana serious? he is still eating but im feeling guilty starving my arowana, Miguel is there anything i could give to my arowana?
I do not believe the iodine concentration is that big enough to kill the fish. I've tried iodized table salt and have yet to encounter issues especially as I had used it with my BGK and loaches for ich. The iodine concentration is being regulated for human consumption and is fatal if in large amount but the amount as said earlier will hardly prove detrimental to the fish so I do not see why we have to avoid table salt. It is a cheaper alternative to aquarium salt which is plain sodium chloride in a fancy package.
thanks miguel and lupin, by the way lupin i did not know that iodized salt are also good for fishes.
Please elaborate what aftereffects are expected from the use of iodized salts. I have used this many times and have even discussed this with some members in our sister site, Aquariacentral.com. A lot of them vouched for its use especially as the iodine issue is not much of an issue at all. If the amount of iodine were that fatal to fish, it would surely prove dangerous for human consumption as well. The lack of iodine itself in water can considerably cause goiter among fish much like it does to humans. It has its own benefits. I have yet to hear one person claiming iodine itself killed the fish by explainng the actual effects it caused on the fish unless he added salt by all of a sudden that the fish died from osmotic shock instead and pointed the blame quickly to iodine as the cause.killarbb;2384177; said:
I know a few friends who even use iodized salt in their tanks for ich cases without encountering any issues at all. The only problem is people reacting quickly to blame the iodine without proof and even believing too quickly the claims of some companies that it is harmful. Most companies claim it to discredit the use of table salt which is a cheaper alternative and will save you your few bucks...even if it is just a dollar or two.
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Certainly a new to me...but your reasoning seems faultless. I do not know, in fact, of an iodine caused illness in fish.
the reason for not using table salt is not only for the iodine issue.
its a chemically made thing. sometimes they have illumina silicate in it too. preferably i wouldnt eat table salt and actually i dont by choice. they add iodine in salt so people in areas that dont have iodine in the soil have it in their diets.
its used to add taste and bring out flavours and not a way of giving the body ALL the various elements. your cheating yourself using it really. rock salt comes from underground salt deposits from old lakes etc.
sounds like your table salt dosent do any harm in the rates your using but we dont know what that is..
however the reason for using aquarium salt or rock salt is that it contains all the elements that is in the ocean. so its more of a natural thing. ocean salt has goodies numbering in the vicinity of around 30 i believe from memory.
all in ratios that fish have evolved from so that makes more sense to me.
it is thought that fish began in salt water not fresh and in times of dry evaporation periods lakes etc can get a bit salty.
the mining or salt harvesters will suck out some of the expensive minerals so they can get good bucks for that. sell it as fertilizers or whatever.
so the table salt isnt really as natural, just as the pool salt isnt fully natural either. i find aquarium salt to be too expensive and used it once only. leave it for the saltwater coral keepers. its just marked up for that fancy market.
id prefer rock salt but would use pool salt well before id use kitchen table salt. rock or pool salt is pretty cheap really.
i know farmers that use salt and so use pool salt at 3-5ppt with no dramas but its used for purging or short term fixes. having said all this, some natural rivers have varying amounts of the salty elements however as far as i know the arowana live where there isnt much salt but soft water and plenty of rain and i dont know how high a salt level an arowana will tolerate but up to 3ppt i wouldnt worry about.
what rate of table salt have you found to be ok? the iodine and others may not be a significant component but common sense tells me to try keep it more so balanced in their cells.
its a chemically made thing. sometimes they have illumina silicate in it too. preferably i wouldnt eat table salt and actually i dont by choice. they add iodine in salt so people in areas that dont have iodine in the soil have it in their diets.
its used to add taste and bring out flavours and not a way of giving the body ALL the various elements. your cheating yourself using it really. rock salt comes from underground salt deposits from old lakes etc.
sounds like your table salt dosent do any harm in the rates your using but we dont know what that is..
however the reason for using aquarium salt or rock salt is that it contains all the elements that is in the ocean. so its more of a natural thing. ocean salt has goodies numbering in the vicinity of around 30 i believe from memory.
all in ratios that fish have evolved from so that makes more sense to me.
it is thought that fish began in salt water not fresh and in times of dry evaporation periods lakes etc can get a bit salty.
the mining or salt harvesters will suck out some of the expensive minerals so they can get good bucks for that. sell it as fertilizers or whatever.
so the table salt isnt really as natural, just as the pool salt isnt fully natural either. i find aquarium salt to be too expensive and used it once only. leave it for the saltwater coral keepers. its just marked up for that fancy market.
id prefer rock salt but would use pool salt well before id use kitchen table salt. rock or pool salt is pretty cheap really.
i know farmers that use salt and so use pool salt at 3-5ppt with no dramas but its used for purging or short term fixes. having said all this, some natural rivers have varying amounts of the salty elements however as far as i know the arowana live where there isnt much salt but soft water and plenty of rain and i dont know how high a salt level an arowana will tolerate but up to 3ppt i wouldnt worry about.
what rate of table salt have you found to be ok? the iodine and others may not be a significant component but common sense tells me to try keep it more so balanced in their cells.
