Diamond brand kosher salt is free of additives, even anti-caking agents. It's what I use in my Malawi tank.
Aquarium Salt?
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But Lake Malawi has only trace levels of NaCl. It is hard and alkaline, but table salt provides neither of those parameters. ?????
For medication purposes it is NaCl that we are looking for. Iodine in the small amounts added to table salt and anti-caking agents are not harmful until you add so much your fish are pickled.
The reason we don't always suggest Aquarium Salt is a good idea is that we actually don't knwo what is in it. It is probably safe and many people use it. But other than " evaporated salt water" what does it actually contain. Considering that the times I have used it in the past it has never been clumped I begin to wonder what they add to accomplish that.
The reason we don't always suggest Aquarium Salt is a good idea is that we actually don't knwo what is in it. It is probably safe and many people use it. But other than " evaporated salt water" what does it actually contain. Considering that the times I have used it in the past it has never been clumped I begin to wonder what they add to accomplish that.
Sea Salt and marine mix are different--the sea salt that is available in most stores is unlikely to cause any problems--I'd certainly test it to make sure it doesn't alter the KH of the water before using it, though. Sea salt does NOT make saltwater--it makes salted water, just like table salt does.
Marine mix CAN be used for medicating FW tanks, but know what impact it will have one your setup prior to use. Table salt is way cheaper than either my fancy cooking sea salts or marine mix, though!
Marine mix CAN be used for medicating FW tanks, but know what impact it will have one your setup prior to use. Table salt is way cheaper than either my fancy cooking sea salts or marine mix, though!
Thank you, OG, I was not aware of that. The sea salt I have used for cooking was always advertised as being "straight from the sea" and "processed for cooking" -- paraphrased. Nothing was ever said of having stuff removed, so to me sea salt probably had more "crap" in it than table salt does.OrionGirl said:
Still don't think I would use it. But that's me.
Roan
Agree w/OG very strongly. Evaporated sewater produces "sea salt", and IMHO it is dandy in the kitchen. But the chemistry of concentration to full evaporation of brines involves quite a number of arcane chemical ractions which are totally irreversible - redisolving the dry material does not come anywhere near being seawater or brackish water or contain the materials as they were in the original seawater. It tastes pretty good though...
