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This page contains
several Customer Comments and our Replies about
using Aquarium Salt. Click
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of Aquarium Salt. |
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Reply.
First let me remind everybody that freshwater is
the tap water that comes out of the faucet and this
water has almost no salt dissolved in it.
Brackish Water is
that same freshwater with about one tablespoon of
Aquarium Salt added to each five gallons of the
freshwater. Click here
for information about Aquarium Salt.
Freshwater Fish are
fish that naturally live their lives in freshwater
without much salt in that water. Brackish Water
Fish are fish that naturally live in both freshwater
and in the saltwater that occurs in the oceans.
Typical Brackish
Water Fish live along the ocean shores near a freshwater
river, and these Brackish Water Fish swim upstream
into the freshwater, then back downstream to the
saltwater in the ocean. Click
here for more information about Brackish Water
Fish.
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Customer Comments
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Hi, I just want to know
what other kind of alternitive
there is to commercial salt
for freshwater. Can i use
table salt and/or kosher
coarse salt.? Thanks.
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Reply. Hello.
We strongly recommend that you use Aquarium Salt.
It is inexpensive, widely available in stores that
sell pet fish, and other types of salt may have
additives that are detrimental to fish.
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Customer Comments
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I really enjoy your site,
I just recently started
a freshwater aquarium again
after many years, mostly
to house a baby turtle my
wife found, but it's rapidly
become a full blown hobby
again.
My question is about adding
salt. There is a collection
of swordtails and platy's,
and a Pleco catfish which
can all tolerate the salt,
according to your site,
there is also a locally
caught crayfish.
Can the crayfish handle
these low concentrations
of salt? and what happens
to the existing bacteria
in the bio filter? Do they
adapt, or die off and get
replaced by others? I'd
appreciate your input on
these not terribly important
but curious to me questions.
Thank You for your time,
George S. |
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Reply.
Hello George. Thank you for your complimentary comment
and for your interesting questions.
You're right about
your Swordtails, Platies, and Plecostomus. They
can all tolerate Aquarium Salt, and I'm almost certain
your Crayfish can tolerate salt too. But there are
many species of Crayfish, and I have only kept a
few species. So I'll cautiously say your Crayfish
will almost certainly tolerate Aquarium Salt.
I recommend that
you put your Crayfish in a good clean bucket with
say two gallons of aquarium water and add one teaspoon
of Aquarium Salt. Then watch the Crayfish for a
while, and see how it reacts. If the Crayfish seems
OK, put it back in your aquarium and add Aquarium
Salt to bring the concentration up to one Tablespoon
per each 5 gallons of aquarium water.
As mentioned above,
many bacteria are affected negatively by salt, and
this is why salt often helps fish recover from illnesses
caused by bacteria.
I suspect that salt
also has a negative affect on the beneficial bacteria
that live in your aquarium's filter and perform
the biological filtration that is essential. But
fortunately experience shows us that the affect
of salt is not so much as to affect the bacteria
enough to cause problems.
I don't know nearly
as much about bacteria as I'd like to know. Surely
there are many different species in your filter.
Some of the beneficial bacteria may be killed by
the salt, some may be unaffected, and some may need
a few days to adjust to the salt.
When you add the
salt to your water, you will make a big change in
the environment of the bacteria. But enough of the
bacteria survive and adjust to keep the biological
filter working properly, and that is very important
for the fish.
Undergravel Filters
are present in many aquariums with sick fish. Fish
in aquariums do not need gravel, but a thin layer
of gravel is important in a fish bowl or pond without
a filter. You can avoid many fish problems in your
aquarium by having a filter with a BIO-Wheel and
being sure the layer of gravel is not more than
1/4" thick. Click
here for more information about filters with
BIO-Wheels.
If you do have an
Under Gravel Filter, be sure to gravel wash at least
twice a week with a gravel cleaner. Click
here for more information about cleaning gravel.
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Customer Comments
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Hi, I emailed you last week
about aquarium salt. Thank
you for the response and
your time. I have one more
question. I plan on doing
bi-weekly water changes
of 20 to 25%. How would
you recommend replacing
the salt? I have a 10 gallon
tank and I was think of
putting a tablespoon of
salt in every second change.
Does that sound good? Again,
thanks for your time and
I love your site.
Mick. |
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Reply.
Hello Mick. Yes your idea is just about right. You
have a ten gallon aquarium. It probably actually
has 8 or 9 gallons of water. So 20% of the water
is about 1.6 or 1.8 gallons. Remove that amount
twice a week, and you've removed 3.2 or 3.6 gallons.
Do it three times, and you've removed 4.8 to 5.4
gallons.
Lets round it off
to 5 gallons. So I would recommend that you add
1 Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt every third water
change. Better write that on a calendar to keep
it straight.
Or you could add
1/3 of a Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt each time you
change some water. A teaspoon is 1/3 of a Tablespoon,
so you would add a level teaspoon of Aquarium Salt
each time you do a water change, and it's probably
easier to remember a teaspoon of Aquarium Salt each
time you change water, and so it will be a more
reliable schedule for you.
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Customer Comments
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... you recommend larger Tetras as being suitable companions for Mollies and Platies. How can that be when aquarium salt is not needed for Tetras?
Thank you for the help
Alison |
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Reply. Hello Alison. Thank you for your good question. Mollies, Swordtails, and Bigger Tetras can live in water without Aquarium Salt or with up to one Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt per each five
gallons of aquarium water.
In an aquarium that has only Livebearers such as Mollies, Platies, and Swordtails, I would keep about one Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt per each five gallons of water.
In an aquarium that has only the Bigger Tetras I would not put any Aquarium Salt, unless the fish showed Signs of Stress and Disease. Click here for more about
these Signs.
But the Livebearers can also live without Aquarium Salt, and the Bigger Tetras can live with Aquarium Salt in their water.
In an aquarium with both Livebearers and Bigger Tetras, I would add one Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt to each five gallons of water. Then I would make two 20% water changes a week for three weeks without adding more Aquarium
Salt.
After the six partial water changes, almost all of the Aquarium Salt will be gone, and then I would add one Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt to each five gallons of water.
In this way the amount of Aquarium Salt will vary from almost none to the full dose over a period of about three weeks.
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