Aquarium Salt

[John D. Goulden]

My wife and I are relatively new to keeping fish and have for various
reasons (friends, relatives, garage sales...) acquired several tanks with
bettas, guppies, swordtails, angels, tetras, neons, mollies, goldfish, and
(of all things) native Oklahoma bullhead catfish. We are about to
re-organize everyone. We have not yet used aquarium salt in any tank, but
realize that for many fish it would be better if we did. As part of the
reorganization we will have some tanks in which we maintain the recommended
amount of salt per gallon for freshwater tropical fish and other tanks will
be salt free. The question is - which of these fish do best with aquarium
salt, and which should not have salt? Is there a web site that gives a good
description of which fish do best with salt and which would rather be
without?

TIA

--
John Goulden

[Mopi]

In general, scaleless fish (usually catfish) are quite sensitive to aquarium
salt. As long as it's the salt intended for freshwater aquariums (aka.
canning salt, coarse salt, non-iodized salt etc.) most fish will benefit
from it.

"John D. Goulden" > wrote in message
...
> My wife and I are relatively new to keeping fish and have for various
> reasons (friends, relatives, garage sales...) acquired several tanks with
> bettas, guppies, swordtails, angels, tetras, neons, mollies, goldfish, and
> (of all things) native Oklahoma bullhead catfish. We are about to
> re-organize everyone. We have not yet used aquarium salt in any tank, but
> realize that for many fish it would be better if we did. As part of the
> reorganization we will have some tanks in which we maintain the
> recommended
> amount of salt per gallon for freshwater tropical fish and other tanks
> will
> be salt free. The question is - which of these fish do best with aquarium
> salt, and which should not have salt? Is there a web site that gives a
> good
> description of which fish do best with salt and which would rather be
> without?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> John Goulden
>
>

[Billy]

"Mopi" > wrote in message
news:S2Ahd.90083$nl.56339@pd7tw3no...
| In general, scaleless fish (usually catfish) are quite sensitive to
aquarium
| salt. As long as it's the salt intended for freshwater aquariums
(aka.
| canning salt, coarse salt, non-iodized salt etc.) most fish will
benefit
| from it.
|


Many types of commonly available freshwater tropical fish do not
tolerate salt. You're quite correct about scaleless fish, such as
loaches (botias) they're VERY sensitive to salt. Tetras are also
rather intiolerant of salt. I view salt in a freshwater aquarium as a
medicine, only to be used if there is a specific and present need for
it.

[Dustin The-Wind]

http://madhunag.tripod.com/salt.html