I still dont have a straight answer ...

[Rob 28]

I read before on this site not to put salt with corys.

My cory has got swimbladder disease so i bought some treatment.
It says i should use salt too to make the treatment effective.
But i didnt because of what i read on here and he is not getting better.

I posted a question about this in the emergencies section but am not decided whether i should or should not use salt still.

Shops, the treatment instructions and in my emergency post say i should use salt.

A pinned post on this site says i should not.

Im not gonna use salt unless you all convince me its not a good idea. Anyone clear this up for me please ?

 

[Aussie]

The salt may work for u cory i have known ppl in the same situastion and have used the salt and it has worked and 1 of my friends has done this but it did not work and the fish died. the salt trick to me should work from friends experiences.

 

[daisycat]

I can only tell you my own experience, we keep our aquarium with salt in it and our corys never had a problem. We use a maintenance level of salt in order to reduce the chance of our turtle contracting a fungal infection. Our corys are dead now but that was as a result of an unexpected ammonia spike and was nothing to do with the salt. We happily kept the corys in a salted tank for a couple of years.

 

[Fiddlesticks]

I found this in the catfish cradle section. I wouldnt recommend using salt with corys, but take a look and decide for yourself.
http/fish.orbust.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7380

 

[heresmike]

Personally I think using salt during the treatment would be OK. I've used salt in my tank with corys, and had no problems.

This link says it's OK to use salt in tanks with corydoras.

I've not been able to find anywhere that says you should NOT use salt in your cory tanks, other than in this forum.

 

[Lateral Line]

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I've not been able to find anywhere that says you should NOT use salt in your cory tanks, other than in this forum.
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Okay...

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Fish like Cory's, Clown Loaches, characins (Tetras) and Rams I’ve found out through experience don't like salt. In my experience, 5mg/l is sufficient for this and the level of salt should be built up gradually over time. When the problem is over the salt should be removed by water changes as quickly as possible remembering that freshwater fish don’t need salt normally.
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from this page at Corydoras World.

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A few fish do not tolerate aquarium salt. Corydoras catfish and many live aquatic plants do not do well with salt in their water.
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from this article at AquariumFish.

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However, they prefer an acid to neutral pH, soft to slightly hard water, and temperatures in the middle 70's. They are not tolerant of salt and should be moved if the tank is going to be salted.
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from the article at Crazy About Corys.

I could go on.

The fact is that Corys evolved in salt free environments. Like most animals, they can adapt to small amount of what to them is pollution, however, the kidney becomes overworked, and "burns out" dealing with this pollution. When this happens the fish will die. Some species may be more tolerant then others, in fact I am certain that is true. Many farmed types are likely to be more tolerant because of their handling - the more senisitive fish simply die off before they hit the shops.

I do not use salt in my y´tanks, and would not advise people to put salt in tanks containing Corys and scaleless fish, loaches for example. Salt is a stress inducing pollutant for fish evolved in salt free environs.

 

[totalbolshevik]

Everything I've read says not to use salt on corys. Probably a good idea to be safe. One time, my panda cory got ich, and I took him to the aquarium store to ask them what to do since I couldn't use salt. Well, the lady there told me that salt was alright, and proceeded to add some salt to the water I had transported him in. By the time I had gotten home, it had been a good 20 minutes, and I found him floating upside down. I thought he was dead, when he turned over and swam around a little bit. So I put him back in the tank, and several days later, he was dead. I'm fairly sure it was the salt that killed him, since there was no ich on him after that.

 

[Teelie]

A lot of sites say a lot of things and not all of it is true. I've used salt with my Cories before and every last one of them is still alive and as healthy as before. There are almost as many sites that say salt with Cories is fine, including those with experts on Cories. Don't worry about them though if you do want to be safe, halve the dosage and make sure you dissolve the salt in water before adding it to the tank.

If I can find the link to the person with an credible name, I'll post it. Right now it's lost in a ton of links.

 

[heresmike]

... make sure you dissolve the salt in water before adding it to the tank.

I was going to say the same thing. And I'll add that's it's a good idea to add the salt water over a period of time (several hours) so the fish can adjust to it. This is a good idea regardless of what type of fish are in the tank.