How much salt during water change?

[marcos]

How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?
Thanku
john

[Jimmy Chen]

> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?

3%o, or 3 ppt using a salinity refractometer.

jc

[Szaki]

1 table spoon for every 5 gallon. It's writen on the salt container.
I hope you were , not trying to add regular table salt?
JS

"marcos" > wrote in message
om...
> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?
> Thanku
> john

[Geezer From The Freezer]

marcos wrote:
>
> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?
> Thanku
> john

none, unless you have problems with your fish!

[Donald K]

Szaki wrote:

> 1 table spoon for every 5 gallon. It's writen on the salt container.
> I hope you were , not trying to add regular table salt?
> JS
>
> "marcos" > wrote in message
> om...
>> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water
>> changes? Thanku
>> john

CAREFUL, don't add that much every time, just the first time, then you
have to calculate how much you're taking out with water changes, then
replace just that amount...

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0.3% is too high. 0.1% is more than enough.

1 teaspoon per 5 gallons is less than 0.1%. start with testing for salt already in
the water. aquarium pharm has a pond salt test kit. some people got adequate salt
levels in their tap water dont need to add more.

so add the salt, then decrease the salt over the next 5 water changes, check the
level of salt and bring it up to 0.05%

Ingrid

"Jimmy Chen" > wrote:

>> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?
>
>3%o, or 3 ppt using a salinity refractometer.
>
>jc
>



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except that Jo Ann Burke, the leading expert in GF in the US (maybe the world) says
to use low levels of salt to head off problems. Ingrid

Geezer From The Freezer > wrote:

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>
>marcos wrote:
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>> How much salt would I add to a 70 liter aquarium during water changes?
>> Thanku
>> john
>
>none, unless you have problems with your fish!



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[Geezer From The Freezer]

surely pests would get used to the low levels...

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> except that Jo Ann Burke, the leading expert in GF in the US (maybe the world) says
> to use low levels of salt to head off problems. Ingrid

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most fish are raised by people who use salt in their ponds.
fish "carry" most pests they come in with (no spontaneous generation) so if there are
pests, they are already resistant or they arent.
salt in the tank is NOT for treatment... it is there to stimulate the turnover of the
slime coat. fish make antibodies that are secreted into the slime coat... they also
make antimicrobial proteins similarly secreted. so a consistent turnover means pests
are being attacked by fish defenses more consistently.
low salt levels also helps with osmotic pressure.
Ingrid

Geezer From The Freezer > wrote:

>surely pests would get used to the low levels...
>
wrote:
>>
>> except that Jo Ann Burke, the leading expert in GF in the US (maybe the world) says
>> to use low levels of salt to head off problems. Ingrid



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[Geezer From The Freezer]

wrote:
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> most fish are raised by people who use salt in their ponds.
> fish "carry" most pests they come in with (no spontaneous generation) so if there are
> pests, they are already resistant or they arent.
> salt in the tank is NOT for treatment... it is there to stimulate the turnover of the
> slime coat. fish make antibodies that are secreted into the slime coat... they also
> make antimicrobial proteins similarly secreted. so a consistent turnover means pests
> are being attacked by fish defenses more consistently.
> low salt levels also helps with osmotic pressure.
> Ingrid

I always thought tap water had low level salt anyway.