On (30 Aug 96) Susan Lepri Rambled On  To DAN LAFLIN...
 SL> It's common practice in this area to add aquarium salt in those
 SL> proportions. We run 40 20 gal. tanks for tropicals here and a few
 SL> 55's. Every one of them has salt including all the ones that the
 SL> plants are kept in with no problems. Been running this way for nearly
  Well, the water we get is from the aquilifer, via a well, and
  being on beach can have salt incurse, sometimes the ICE Cubes taste
  a little salty, the point is with some water, one really does not
  know the  amount of salt already there, unless using
  water like distilled, rain, a source known to have little or no salt
  dissolved already in it.
  If it works for all of you "add salters" fine, but
  i'll give it a pass.
  I'm not totally knocking adding salt, just saying it
  can be TRICKY, especially for beginners, who are apt to think
  if it is good to put in a spoon ful, 2-3 spoonfuls must be even better
  ;-)
 I still recall some "dumb" things I did as a beginner,
 especially overdoing Meds  thinking that more would work faster ;-/
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