On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:07:52 GMT, "Paul & Angela Williams"
wrote:

Hi. I have a 120 litre tank with 1 green severum 1 female betta, 2 bronze
corys, 1 bristlenose.
Things were going well until I purchased the severum. I was floating it in
it's bag in the tank when I realised that things weren't right in there.
Both bettas looked sick (scales seem to be dropping off, 1 has since died) 1
of the cories looked like it had a fungus infection. In a panic I checked
the water specs. ammonia. nil, nil nitrates, But PH was low.
also GH was a bit on hard side but KH was really low.

Anyways as I had no other Tank for the severum he had to go in. Added some
KH raise and corrected ph. I added a broad spectrum type med.
I have heard that salt can be beneficial. As I have never added salt to my
tank before I was just going to follow the instructions that came with the
"sea salt for freshwater". The rate given was 1 gram per litre... which when
weighed out seems a tremendous amount of it.
1. does this sound right ?
2. Will the broad spectrum med treat the ailments mentioned above, or
should I be getting something more specific ?
3. is there a readily available test for salinity in freshwater aquariums ?

thanks in advance.



for profalictic reasons we use salt in the koi/goldfish tanks at the
nursery. We keep the level at 0.3%. there are test kits, we use a
conductivity tester calibrated for salt in water

A 120 litre tank would have 120 kilos of water (minus whatever empty
space or space taken up by gravel or orniments. 1% would be 1.2 kilos
of salt, so 0.3 would be 0.36 kilos.

I don't know if this would be the proper dose for the fish you have.