Types Of Salt

Boy_In_A_BoX

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hi everyone,

is there a difference between aquruim salt and ocean salt? most pet stores sell aqurium salt and it sell for quite cheap, and other sell ocean salt or instant ocean for marine aquariums which is much higher prices. can anyone seperate the two for me?

and just another quick question, can goldfish live in brackish water
 
Aquarium salt is just Sodium chloride which can have mildly benefitial properties when treating some diseases, marine salt contains all the essential minerals needed to keep brackish and marine fish.
 
If your question is which you should use in a brackish tank, marine mix or aquarium (a.k.a. "tonic") salt, the answer is marine mix. While tonic salt might help (as CFC says) over the short term for fixing things like external fungal infections, it's otherwise useless stuff. It's a hang-over from the early days of fishkeeping, when a common reaction to all sorts of things, from nitrite poisoning to fin rot, was to add tonic salt. Hence its name, I suppose. It's basically snake oil.

Marine mix is what you want. Remember, at the concentrations you need for brackish water, you'll be using much less salt that with a marine tank. For a tank with mollies and bumblebee gobies, for example, the box will easily run to 10 to 20 times the volume it says on the box. Even with higher salinity fishes like scats and monos, your box of salt should run something like 2-4 times as much as in marine tanks.

As to your second question, no, goldfish don't like brackish water. Some of the wild carps do inhabit slightly brackish water (e.g., around the Baltic sea) but not goldfish nor their probable ancestors.

Cheers,

Neale
 

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