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Old April 20th, 2008  
Fish Bum
 
aquarium salt?????

hello, there for a while i being haering that adding salt to the tank is good for the fish and my question do all freshwater fish like it or would my fish die if i do. i have 1 albino rainbow shark, 1 peacock eel, 2 swordtails(male/female) 3 silver mollys 1 black molly(2 died this week) 1 golden mollys and 4 glofish about 8 fishfry
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Old April 20th, 2008  
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Thats a topic that has been discussed many times here. If you put salt in the search box you will get all kinds of threads and opinions to read.
Personally I don't feel salt should be used for freshwater fish except in extreme cases for medication.
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Old April 21st, 2008  
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I did have aquarium salt in my daughters 10g when we first got it, for about 2 months. The livebearers seemed to thrive on that type of water... constantly having fry. I quit using salt in there, and haven't seen a batch in the last 2-3 months since then. I still see 1 or 2 every now and then, but nothing like the 'swarms' I was seeing.

Lotsa folks recommend against it, but I think it's more a personal choice than anything. Just research your fish first and make sure they can take salt being added to a aquarium before you do it.
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Old April 21st, 2008  
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Mollies and swords would deal okay with salt (the mollies actually might be a bit happier, depending on your original water chemistry). The shark and eel, on the other hand, would likely not. The glofish would probably keep plugging along no matter what.

My opinion on aquarium salt is that it depends very heavily on the fish that you have and what your original water chemistry is. I have a mollies-only tank that I've set up as a brackish tank. My other tanks don't have salt anywhere near them. This is because mollies naturally live in water that ranges from almost salt-free to nearly marine, while the rest of my fish live in freshwater. I also have very hard water, which means that my fish that prefer hard water have what they need, I don't need to add anything to make the water harder (which is what aquarium salt does, it evens out osmotic stress for normally hard water fish). Of course, there is now freshwater additives made to harden water without salt, so aquarium salt has much less of a purpose.
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Old April 21st, 2008  
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Salt is an irritant and best used only medicinally with freshwater tanks.
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