Hey I own a 60 gallon old freezer I use as a live well to carry wild caught shiners (mostly emerald shiners), I use them to feed my Kelberi peacock bass so I'm absolutely paranoid about parasites. I know aquarium salt kills ich parasites etc but that's if the salt doesn't kill the fish... What I want to know is are emerald shiners sensitive to aquarium salt? If not I'd like to add it to my live well. If so would a UV sterilizer be effective? If you're wondering my set up I have a powerful airpump that creates MASSIVE turbidity, an old crappy 40 gallon rated HOB filter, and a fluval 406 as my main means of filtration. I keep about 6 dozen at a time or less.
Shiners sensitive to salt?
- Thread starter Mihajlo525
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I keep a school of emerald shiners with 1 tbsp of salt per 15 gallons in my stream tank. I'd be hesitant to use any more than that because they're an extremely fragile species to maintain.
Thanks! They're also very sensitive to temperature change, especially from cold to warm. I have to keep them in a bucket for some hours because the 60 gallon freezer quarantine is much colder than the 5 gallon quarantine upstairs... Atleast I'll be able to feed gobies and crayfish during the summer -.-
What kind of shiners were they? Emerald shiners are a little more on the sensitive side with water quality and temp and spot tail shiners look very similar but grow a little larger and are tougher, I know this because whenever there was a temp spike they were the only ones left XD. but I know Spotfin shiners and other slightly larger shiners are very hardy.
Nice! We have those here too, I just never personally saw them. Aren't they the largest species of shiner?
Well that's still huge for any shiner XD don't think that would fit in any ordinary 40 gallon darter/shiner tank lol.
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