On Dec 24, 6:03*pm, Steve Wolstenholme
wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:49:42 GMT, "crystal101" u40127@uwe wrote:
Also petco told me to add conditioning salt with the any water changes as
they said it would help with stress, which I did. *I want to add neons and
maybe one male betta maybe in 3-4 weeks. *I keep the water temp. at 78.

Don't add salt with neons and betta. They don't like salt.

Steve

This is true..same for a lot of the catfish .they do not tolerate salt
very well either. Take what the folks in the places like "Deathco"
tell you with a grain of "salt"...........and before you do what they
saym, ask online as well and compare what yuor told. I am not saying
that everything that is stated by Deathco folks is wrong, but the
majority of it is bull$hit and while some may mean better there are
some employees that just do not have a clue and will run their mouth
to say something even if its wrong or half right.

A simple rule to follow is: Never add "anything" to a fish tank unless
you have on hand a proper test kit to test for whatever it is that
you added. On the Deathco theory of adding salt with water changes to
eliminate stress.....its inevitably a death sentence for anay fish
tank even if it was a sal****er setup to do that unless yu can check
your salt levels. Salt does not evaporate so in time the salt levels
will be getting tothe point of brackish water salinity content, and
then it will reach what is considered sal****er parameters, but by
this time most if not all FW fish will be floating dead.......and
you'll wonder why.............and all those Deathco folks will say is
change the filters, and 50% of the water add some salt and start
again.............its their typical "canned replies" that is taught in
their 5 day fish technician course the take to maintain , er ah make
that sell fish.as they certainly do not know how to maintain fish. A
fish in a properly setup tank with water changes performed when they
should be and water parameters in check will not be stressed out.
Learn what fish get along with what fish, and also find out what fish
you really have in there now............and learn to pick out healthy
fish. Do not add a bunch of fish at one time, but rather add a fish or
two over the period of a few days or a week so yuo do not overload the
filter...........and create high ammonia and nitrate and nitrite
levels...........Have fun....