http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/salt.shtml#saltbath
Here is a link to another really good article about salt... how very interesting that it pretty much teaches the same thing as liv2padl. (One of the most respected aquarists around!)
Cag - go ahead, salt away. It's your tank. There might be other reasons why your fish came around after you added salt - is your water soft? Africans like water with a higher amount of Total Dissolved Solids, you added some when you added salt. Perhaps if you had added baking soda, or crushed coral, or potassium sulfate, or any combination of the above, something similar would have happened. It may not have been the nacl at all.
Cathy
Here is a link to another really good article about salt... how very interesting that it pretty much teaches the same thing as liv2padl. (One of the most respected aquarists around!)
Cag - go ahead, salt away. It's your tank. There might be other reasons why your fish came around after you added salt - is your water soft? Africans like water with a higher amount of Total Dissolved Solids, you added some when you added salt. Perhaps if you had added baking soda, or crushed coral, or potassium sulfate, or any combination of the above, something similar would have happened. It may not have been the nacl at all.
Cathy
