HELP!!! it's ICK

On Mar 21, 11:45*pm, "DEM via PetKB.com" u42059@uwe wrote:
well when i clean the water i do a 40 -60 percent water change and add the
salt to the water and treat the water before i put it in and i top it off
with water with out salt so there is not a build up of salt for the
evaporation were can i get the other salt or can i get it at any local
petsmart.





ExPat wrote:
THX FOR THE GREAT ADVICE.just ont more quetion , Im use to keeping salt with
my mollies but im always afriad if i put to much how much shuld i put in per
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One thing you need to be aware of with salt. As water evporates and
you add more water the salt level will always remain the same. Salt
does not leave the water with evaporation. NOw if your used to adding
salt evcery so often say adding salt with each water change or so,
your actually building up the salt level, and you can get a salt level
to be extremely high. *Its bnest if you have a hydrometer *or
refractometer to read the salt content, or make note of how high the
water level is, and always top off the water to that level before
doing a water change. Then if your removing and changing say 5 gal of
water youcan add the amount of salt required in that 5 gal of water
and then add that to the tank and your SG willbe the same as it was
previously. Ifyou do not bring water up to the normal level and then
do a water change over a period of time your SG will become much
higher overall. *I wuold look at a swingarm hydrometer or
refractometer if yuor dealing with brackish water or sal****er fish
and adding any amount of salt to any fish aquarium.

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You still need to be able to see what the specific gravity (SG) of the
salt content of your water is..........otherwise your shooting inthe
dark. Any decent pet shop ought to have various sized packs of
synthetic salt if your going to make brackish water. Instant Ocean has
10 gal packs as well as 5 gal packs, and there is a lot of various
other companies that also have 5 gal packs and up.