All cooking salt contains iodine or just some? Don't they have to lable it as such? Is it the amount of iodine present that determines this?
Lots of questions ...newbie here
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im sure that all salt contains iodine (except for 'natural sea salt' that you buy in the cooking isle which will note that it 'lacks the essential iodine, yada yada yada...)
iodine is essential to proper maintenance of your thyroid gland and since people no longer eat enough veggies that are high iodine they started to supplement it in their salt intake...now since NYC has introduced legislation to slowly ban salt from cooking in restaurants (slight exaageration but true) people will need to find new ways to obtain iodine in their diet...maybe they will actually ahve to start eating vegies again...anyway back to the topic.
aquarium salt/table salt....you will only need to add it in the rare case that you have ich and you will only add a very tiny amount so it doesnt make a difference...i have aquarium salt because i bought it a long time ago and will use that until it runs out (ie never)
-chris
iodine is essential to proper maintenance of your thyroid gland and since people no longer eat enough veggies that are high iodine they started to supplement it in their salt intake...now since NYC has introduced legislation to slowly ban salt from cooking in restaurants (slight exaageration but true) people will need to find new ways to obtain iodine in their diet...maybe they will actually ahve to start eating vegies again...anyway back to the topic.
aquarium salt/table salt....you will only need to add it in the rare case that you have ich and you will only add a very tiny amount so it doesnt make a difference...i have aquarium salt because i bought it a long time ago and will use that until it runs out (ie never)
-chris
Have some brackish fish, thats why I was curious. As far as restricting salt in food goes...are they nuts? You are totally corect about why they add iodine to salt. It is for thyroid function. I wonder if fish have thyroids? Hmmm, would explain why my betta lays around good deal of the day complaining about his recent weight gain. lol
sea salt and kosher salt contain no iodine. When i was having problems with my tank and fish when i first set it up, i was told to put 1 teaspoon of sea salt per gallon in the tank, mixed in with a small amount of tank water. So I spent about 45 minutes stirring the salts until it "dissolved" and was fully suspended in teh water. Then slowly added it to the tank. Didn't do a darn thing (good or bad). since that time I have read quite a bit more about it and understand that it isn't necessary except under certain circumstances (like those described above).
What kind of problems were you having? It really only treats ick and then does not necessarily treat it but it irritates the fish skin so they produce more slime coat and scratch off the ick. In reality salt and heat are supposed to be used in conjunction! Or its almost useless. The heat speeds up the life cycle of the ick and the salt helps the fish to rid themselves of the spores and hopefully create a thick slime coat.
A real friend watching another friends fish suffer during cycling would have led you in the direction of Seachem's stability or some of Dr tims formula, Or even some better planning I suppose in the form of a fish less cycle. We used Seachems cycle on a fry tank in a week it was cycled. It works and it lasts. No snake oil from Seachem
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