Simon Woodland Rabbited on to DAN LAFLIN:
Hi Simon
SW> In a message of 22 Aug 96 DAN LAFLIN wrote to me: 
SW> Hi DAN,
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SW> DL> On (20 Aug 96) Simon Woodland Rambled On  To ALL...
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SW> SW>> Hi ALL,
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SW> SW>> I have a Tank about 1 and a Half foot by a foot
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SW> SW>> I have 12 platys and 3 cherry barbs in there at the moment
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SW> SW>> Being new to to tropical fish I read somewhere that I should put 
alt
SW> SW>> in the water for the platys. Will that harm the cherry barbs ?
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SW> DL>    It will KILL them.
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SW> DL>    DO NOT put salt in  with freshwater fish, whoever
SW> DL>    told you to put salt in is a ignoramus.
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SW> DL>    The only use for salt in freshwater is in a desperate
SW> DL>    try to clear up parastics in Fw, and it is tricky, some FW fish
SW> DL>    can stand a little salt, others will belly up with a little salt.
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SW> DL>    My air pumps on all the time.
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SW> Thanks I read it on the faq files on platys which came with is 
SW> connected with echo it said 2 to 3 teaspoons for every ten litres.
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Salt in an aquriam can be benificail to certain fish namley Black Mollys 
but not houseold cooking salt proper AQURIAM salt that you get from your 
aquriam supplier, he should also be able to tell you how much to put in 
for your size of tank, Black Mollys are prone to a type of Fungus without 
it. If the Mollys have the infection it looks like a white velvet all over 
there bodys.
Hope you find this info usefull.
Bye for now      
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