Different salts

Malbri

Malbri

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Dec 11, 2006
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Okay I heard its good to add a bit of salt to tanks for guppys and platys, and if i decide im gonna stick to livebearers i wanna add some
but there are two different kinds of salt ive seen-Aquarium salt and sea salt
Which do I use? This means im gonna have to add salinity tests to my test doesnt it......
What do i want the salinity levels at?
 
it's really not necessary. aquarium salt is good as a treament for ich and certain other diseases, but it not necessary in freshwater tanks as a constant additive. it is more of an irritant (literally) than a benefit.

aquarium salt is for freshwater tanks, sea salt is, of course, for marine and brackish tanks.

if you decide to keep mollies, another type of livebearer, they can do well in a tank with salt, but a brackish tank, not freshwater. you would have to add sea salt, not aquarium salt, and you would have to carefully measure the salinity. keeping mollies this way would rule out keeping other freshwater fish with them.
 
One thing to note about sea salt, sometimes this is just plain NaCl that is named sea salt. Read the ingredients on the box. You need the kind of salt that is used for salt water tanks to make brackish water.

Ditto on what the previous poster said about salt in a fw tank. It is not needed and really should not be used unless you are using it to treat a disease such as ich.

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Platies are freshwater fish. Guppies can be found in areas in nature with high dissolved solid content but all sold in pet stores are commercially bred in freshwater Unless you are raising wild caught guppies from a brackish area don't add salt.
 
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