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[andywg]

you may be waisting ur time but i do not buy my sailt fom stores ehere. i buy it offline. much cheaper therefore has nothing to do with that. plus. if u take a fish straight form the aquarium salt they DIE. i know i've tried it.

Are you trying to say that taking a fish from water with aquarium salt in it to water without aquarium salt in it will always kill the fish?

 

[mcdanielnc89]

unless weaning them off the aquarium salt, yes...

 

[three-fingers]

you may be waisting ur time but i do not buy my sailt fom stores ehere. i buy it offline. much cheaper therefore has nothing to do with that. plus. if u take a fish straight form the aquarium salt they DIE. i know i've tried it.

I'm not saying I fully understand that post, but I think I kinda get the gist of it .

Much cheaper, therefore it has nothing to do with that.

Think about it...online stores are no different from real stores, they are both trying to do the same thing - sell a product. 'Therefore' your statement doesn't have any logic to it, what are you actually trying to say? .

If you take a fish straight from the aquarium salt they DIE. I know, i've tried it.

That statement doesnt make much sense. What do you mean by "straight from the aquarium salt"?
Do you mean that if you take a fish that has been living in a tank with aquarium salt, and dump it straight into another tank without, it will die?
That's a big 'duh' (and has nothing to do with the salt), so I presume you mean that if you were to take a fish from an aquarium containing aquarium salt, and acclimatise it as you should when moving fish to a tank without the aquarium salt, it will die.
In which case, I can tell you the aquarium salt has nothing to do with it, and anybody who has read that post would be doing good to ignore the information.

Aquarium salt doesn't affect pH or any other water stats (significantly enough to be noticeable anyway), all it does is lower the toxicity of nitrogenous compounds in water. This should never be needed anyway, that's what water changes are for, and I doubt it has very much effect anyway (but I've not tested it, and never intend on doing so).
If you NEED to use aquarium salt for this reason, then your not really responsible enough to be owning an aquarium .
If your fish died, it was certainly from another cause.
I used to use 'aquarium salt' when I was like 10. I never noticed it doing any good, and when I came to my senses and stopped wasting pocket money on it, there was no affect on the fish .

Aquarium salt can be useful for salt baths, but in that case you can use much cheaper non-iodized salt .

 

[mcdanielnc89]

well excuse me for telling u my opinion. DO NOT EVER TELL ME I dont' need to be oning an aquarium. I WORK at petsmart. i think i know what i'm talking about.. the quarium salt helps reduce the stress on the fish..

 

[three-fingers]

I WORK at petsmart. i think i know what i'm talking about.. the quarium salt helps reduce the stress on the fish.

Have you seen the amount of threads on this forum where people are annoyed at petsmart staff?
Saying you work at petsmart isn't helping at all, no offence, there are some people working at petsmart that know what they are talking about...but I have yet to meet one of them.
Actually, we don't have petsmarts over here anymore, we now have 'pet@home' which is still terrible, but slightly better.

I 'WORK' at a responsible freshwater/marine fish store (though we sell reptiles, spiders and many aquatic creatures that live in aquariums).
I know what I'm talking about 99% of the time (because If I don't I'll tell the customers, and look it up for them if they want), and we don't sell aquarium salt unless it's for salt baths, and even then usually only when specifically asked for it.
The previous owners did order in tonnes of the useless stuff, but it's sitting downstairs not being sold, and has been for years.

Seriously, I don't mean offence, but you were presenting your 'opinion' as fact...so I couldn't just leave it, especially not in this forum.