RE: HELP
BY: DAN LAFLIN to Susan Lepri on Thu Aug 29 1996 12:45 am
 >    Salt is in ALL  waters, even freshwater, but it can be
 >    tricky to ADD salt to FW tanks,  put just too much in and some
 >    intolerant species will die, Mollies are closer to being
 >    Perhaps you have the experience to not over do the adding
 >    of salt, but I have to fear about those who say " the Store told me
 >    to ... etc"  indicating that they are new to fishkeeping and so
 >    more likely to put too much salt in a tank, myself 1 tsp/10 gal seems
 >    high for water ALL types of FW fish might be kept in,
 >    and we have not even touched on the effect on LIVE plants.
It's common practice in this area to add aquarium salt in those proportions. 
We
run 40 20 gal. tanks for tropicals here and a few 55's. Every one of them has
salt including all the ones that the plants are kept in with no problems. 
een
running this way for nearly 8 yrs. now with no ill effects. We do tell people
to make sure to measure everything and to make sure it's not the iodized 
able
salt. Some tanks, like ther feeder comets, get a little extra salt. Maybe
they'd do ok without the added salt; but it works for us.
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