Question about aquarium salt?

[Cookie]

Yes, you're right. Sodium ferrocyanide does sound worse, and is.

I know that iodide is fingered just as often, but has never been a legitimate concern.

 

[RTR]

Jim - they say 'yellow prussiate of soda' on the containers, because if they put the real name, sodium ferrocyanide or sodium ferricyanide (I don't know which form they use), folks far beyond the aquarium world would panic. Cyanide? Poison gas! Head for the hills!

 

[wetmanNY]

Blood on the highway? Hi folks, just cruising through. Saw a salt thread going to a second page, with RTR sucked in...

Hi! RTR, want a lift?

 

[RTR]

LOL! You know well that salt and its associated mythology is a major hot button - but there are so many associated mths that it is effectively multple topics in one.

 

[Cookie]

Yah know, I never stated my opinion! Just for the record, my opinion is that salt is only good for fish that like water with a high ionic strength, like mollies, and slightly useful for treating parasites.

 

[wetmanNY]

For treating skin parasites and free-swimming Ich swarmers, as a half-hour dip to make gill flukes let go before quarantine-- salt has therapeutic uses. But as a teaspoon to five gallons permanently, on an "it-couldn't-hurt" basis... no.

Today's NY Times had a piece about the hundred-year battle against the "catch a chill going out with your hair damp" common cold theory, that no amount of genuine science can dislodge. I kept thinking of all the people adding hot water to keep their water changes within 2 degrees, "not to get Ich."

 

[beviking]

I'll get an itch if I go out with damp hair? What? Oh, only if it's 2 degrees colder out!---Now that's just gibberish!

Funny, I saw a 2 pager on salt with wetmanNY sucked in!