Salt Or No Salt

[firefish10]

Why?

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Why?

Why would you add salt if your fish dont need it? or are you talking things like Cichlids salts which add buffers to the water?

 

[blodhi74]

My fish dont require it.

 

[5teady_2012]

I only add salt when using meds (but i never use salt on my plecs and corys tanks.

 

[Corleone]

Aside from some use for disease treatment, wasn't aquarium salt's main point to reduce nitrate toxicity back when water changes were small and rare? Water changes are cheaper. Why pick the lesser of two stresses when you can remove both entirely?

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

I can't vote. You need to expand a bit. Yes for salt, if you have brackish fish. Yes for salt (in small doses), for Goldfish, Guppies, Mollies (brackish kind of.) Yes for salt, for treating certain illnesses. No for salt, for regular tropical fish.

 

[firefish10]

well my cousine seems to think its neccesary or your fish will die and get sick and stuff. Although isnt it benneficial for their slime coating?

 

[Corleone]

No. Your cousin is either A. going on pet store advice or B. going by old advice as I covered before (which are usually the same thing). It might help protect your fish from some contaminants in the water, but if you have these contaminants in your water in dangerous levels, your tank is either not properly cycled or not properly maintained.

 

[LauraFrog]

I add salt to the tanks no matter what is in them, because i find it helps to keep my plants healther and algae under control. I use it at such a low dose rate that it doesn't hurt anything. I put about 2 teaspoons of it in my 22g.

 

[nickelplates]

Must be having finger trouble today, meant to vote No salt but somehow voted salt. I don't know if anyone can change it but as I've just doubled the votes for that option you need to allow for it if you want a meaningful result

 

[firefish10]

No. Your cousin is either A. going on pet store advice or B. going by old advice as I covered before (which are usually the same thing). It might help protect your fish from some contaminants in the water, but if you have these contaminants in your water in dangerous levels, your tank is either not properly cycled or not properly maintained.

OK, I thought that was what she was doing, she goes by a petstore chain's word rather then mine ( I also work at a pet store) but I do research on my own and if im unsure I ask on here.

 

[lilfishie]

i don't use salt in any of my tanks and never have

 

[russ1979]

i use salt instead of tap water conditioner

 

[tyyrlym]

Call me crazy but I don't think aquarium salt neutralizes chlorine which is the point of tap water conditioner. Unless of course you get your water from a well or someplace that doesn't add chlorine to the water.

No salt, my fish don't need it so why add something they don't need?