Aquarium Salt

[kitababy]

How much salt per gallon should I add to a 55g with guppies, black fin shark, bamboo shrimp, and ghost shrimp. I put 1 tablespoon in there so far and they're doing great. I want to add more. Will it be safe to do so? Anyone out there have salt in aquariums? How much salt everyone out there have?

 

[cutecotton]

hi there i use aqarium salt on my 25G which has otos, ghost shrimps, snail and a bunch of other stuff. i believe it's a tablespoon for every 5 gallons, so you'll have to add 11 tablespoons (damn that's a lot of salt)

bottomfeeders are usually more sensitivet o salt, i only add it when the fish are sick, i don't add it out of nowhere though..

 

[kitababy]

Black Fin Sharks sometimes lives in Freshwater and sometimes it lives in Salt Water, and most of the time they live in brackish(sp). I am trying to set the tank to be more toward brackish, but not all the way brackish.

 

[Teelie]

My salt says a level tablespoon per 10 gallons so I'd go with that. 5.5 tablespoons.

 

[Nina7777]

If Brackish water is what your trying to do, then aquarium salt will not do the trick. To stimulate real brackish water you need to use Sea Salt. Also to convert to Brackish water you need to do this very very slowly. With the fish you have there is no need to convert the tank to Brackish waters, unless you were looking to add fish which require it.

 

[Teelie]

I should've read that part. Yeah, going brackish is not easy either. You'll probably need a hydrometer to properly measure your salinity as well. I don't know the specific gravity for Brackish offhand but Saltwater is something ike 1.025

Oh, and Blackfin Sharks, aka Colombian Sharks, aka Silvertip, aka Jordan's Catfish aka West American Catshark and numerous other aliases is a brackish fish that can eventually go full marine or full freshwater as an adult.

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