add salt to freshwater tank??

[orion5456]

I have read many pros and cons to adding salt to my 40 gallon fresh water tank. I have angeles, clown loach, tetras and balas. Should I add salt? If so how much?Also how to do it? Do I need to mix the salt first, or could I just put it in the tank a table spoon at a time.
Thanks Tony

 

[JeffP]

I use salt on my goldfish tanks. They are healthy and doing extremely well so I continue with salt.

I am setting up an angelfish tank in which I do not plan on using salt.

If you have plants and fish that tolerate/benefit from salt, then the choice is yours. However, there are fish that do not like salt. Can't remember which ones they are at the moment.

 

[cich-o]

I would not use salt with the CL's and Bala's Salt is very good for most FW fish excluding inverts and scaless fish such as catfish and loaches.

 

[ewok]

maybe a minute amount, clown loaches are notoriously sensative, and you shouldn't be using salt day to day. unless you are treating a problem like ich or a wound, you only need a very tiny amount for the fishes health and this may actually be present in normal tap water.


http://www.loaches.com/

 

[wetmanNY]

Here are some salters...

 

[Siluar]

Doh, Wetman didn't get your URL in the last post...

Funny that I just posted this EXACT question about 15mins ago How did I miss this thread?

 

[wetmanNY]

...well, I had to dig back for you... I usually think this post comes up twice a week, but I'm wrong.

There's stuff about salt in freshwater tanks at www.skepticalaquarist.com (I'm not a salter) and some links too...