Salt for Swordies

[loafybones]

Hi everyone,

I was at the LFS the other day and mentioned that I keep Swortails with Danios and stuff like that (See sig for list of fish).

The guy said that this was a bad idea because Swordtails need salt. I had never heard this before and the Swordtails are breeding like crazy, which I thought meant that they were doing good.

So my question is, do Swordtails really NEED salt?

 

[specks]

My opinion is that swordies do not need salt. We have no salt in our tanks & our swordies appear to be happy, healthy & breed readily. This is only an opinion, I am no expert. At one shop I frequent the owner tells me he has no salt in his swordtail tanks. We also have danios with the swordies.

 

[loafybones]

That's a relief! I was worried that I was doing summat wrong

 

[specks]

Like I said its only my opinion. I have read several posts about salt in freshwater tanks, a lot of people say that you need salt for mollies but my son has kept them for a long while without. I say " if it aint broke - dont fix it ". After all they were bought from a retailer whose tanks were salt free.