aquarium salt

[icka]

Ok, can i use aquarium salt to make a tank brackish? We got some fiddler crabs, it is a half water half land deal, a ten gal, lots of plants and climbing stuff. There are some places that say they need brackish water in the water portion... some say add sea salt others say reg aquarium salt.


Also, by chance does anyone know if a fire bellied toad can work with these guys?

 

[OrionGirl]

No. Aquarium salt does not contain the needed additives to make bracksih water. Sea salt may work--depends on what you mean. Marine mix salts are what you want. The Sea salt sold for use in the kitchen will not work (again, missing the additives).

Amphibians will not work with brackish animals.

 

[dr_drmd]

Yeah, think about what makes it brackish. It's the mixing of sea water with fresh water. So, it's the sea water that makes marine fish...well, marine. So the same reason you can't use aquarium salt to make a marine tank is the reason it shouldn't be used to create brackish. Otherwise we'd just use higher concentrations of aquarium salt to make a salt water tank. I actually had a friend who tried it with the aquarium salt. His Africans would always live for about 3-6 weeks, and then die. Used InstantOcean-->success.