Murray
Fish Fanatic
can i put it in wtih my kribs?
You can put aquarium salt in with anything really, It's just pure Sodium Chloride, doesn't do much.
A waste of time and money dosing it unless you are giving your fish a salt bath to treat parasites or something IMO.
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article22.html
The recommended doses will have little if any affect on anything in the tank, let alone disease. I hope your using some other kind of medication too?im treating for diesease and im gonna throw some in there eh, how often can u put it in?
Why would having no scales effect the salt tolerance? There's thousands of scaleless brackish/marine species of fish. Some of the brackish ones frequently travel between freshwater and full marine water.Salt doesn't evaporate with the water, so you only need to add it once with the recommended dosing on the box. I believe on mine it's 1 tablespoon for every 10 gallons and 2 for every 10 if it's helping to fight disease, I wouldn't do that much though if other fish are in the tank. It shouldn't hurt them but it's probably not the best either.... And be VERY careful using salt when scaleless fish are present, I.E. Cat's, Cories, and loaches.
Salt will not reduce the stress...It doesn't matter that you use it in all the tanks at petsmart, that does not make it useful.^ you're right for the amount or u can do 1/2 teaspoon for every gallon.. lol..
and also the salt will reduce the stress..
The only time salt in such small doses could harm most fish is if you add it straight to the aquarium without mixing it in water first.You can not use salt for all fish fish with out scales can not tolerate salt.
The recommended doses will have little if any affect on anything in the tank, let alone disease. I hope your using some other kind of medication too?
While the internet is a wealth of fishkeeping knowledge, it is also full of myths. Aquarium salt is not recommended by many websites for these fish because they come from soft acidic water (the exact opposite of sea water), thousands and thousands of people use aquarium salt in their aquarium, and when fish die of an unknown cause the salt is often to blame. It would seem to make sense, I presume the train of thought was something like "My corydoras just died, I added aquarium salt yesterday, corydoras come from soft acidic water, sea water is salty, sea water is hard and alkaline...aquarium salt killed my corydoras!" .Whether or not you've used it before with cories and they've been fine doesn't make it safe for them. Search around anywhere on the net, and you'll see that no one reccomends using salt with scaleless fish and even some reccomend not using it with tetras either. Yes you can probably get away with it and be fine, but that doesn't make it great for the fish.
Not really the case here, since there are close relatives of corydoras that thrive in brackish water and there are lot's of 'freshwater' fish that live in brackish water. Sure there are plenty of families of freshwater fish with no relatives in brackish or marine water, and vice versa. For those, a comparison is pretty crazy, but that is not the case here. Besides, the only comparison I made is the scales, which isn't a crazy comparison regardless of how different the fish are . There are scaleless fish that travel between fresh and full marine water, just as there are fish with scales that have a very low tolerance of higher salinities than they are used to.I would just be careful is all I'm saying. Freshwater fish are so far off of saltwater fish making a comparison there is pretty crazy.
And a fish that has spent it's whole existence in freshwater is generally not going to be fine with salt in the water - regardless if it has scales or not. It has nothing to do with the fish having scales, it is just a myth.A fish that has spent it's whole existence in saltwater is obviously going to be fine there regardless if it has scales or not.
That's good, good luck!I am treating for columnaris/mouth fungus with mardel maracyn plus and maracyn 2
Bignose found some studies that indicate some species of corys are very salt tolerant (can survive medium term with an SG of at least 1.005 IIRC) whereas others were amazingly intolerant of salt in the water.Whether or not you've used it before with cories and they've been fine doesn't make it safe for them. Search around anywhere on the net, and you'll see that no one reccomends using salt with scaleless fish and even some reccomend not using it with tetras either. Yes you can probably get away with it and be fine, but that doesn't make it great for the fish. I would just be careful is all I'm saying.
Freshwater fish are so far off of saltwater fish making a comparison there is pretty crazy. A fish that has spent it's whole existence in saltwater is obviously going to be fine there regardless if it has scales or not.