Salt In A Freshwater Tank?

[MJM966]

I read a link yesterday when I was looking up meds. - may have been recommended by Wilder (Madonna music) - where salt was suggested as a general preventative measure in a freshwater tank (especially re. ich). ( Tablesalt- non iodised). It was to be topped up with weekly water change.

What are your thoughts/ experiences of this?

 

[garraty]

Using salt in fresh water aquariums is a fairly common practice. I do not except in hospital tanks, sometimes in quarantine and in my guppy tanks.

 

[Torrean]

It's usefull in many cases. But you need to be carefull that you don't use it with fish that don't tolerate salt well...like scaleless fish.

 

[Marcos]

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