-=> Quoting Dan Laflin to Simon Woodland <=-
 SW> Being new to to tropical fish I read somewhere that I should
 SW> put salt in the water for the platys.
 SW> Will that harm the cherry barbs ?
 DL> It will KILL them.
 DL> DO NOT put salt in  with freshwater fish, whoever
 DL> told you to put salt in is a ignoramus.
 DL> The only use for salt in freshwater is in a desperate
 DL> try to clear up parastics in Fw, and it is tricky, some FW fish
 DL> can stand a little salt, others will belly up with a little salt.
    Excuse me, but guppies actually like their water a little salty, 
most other livebearers too, I believe.  The concentration I have had 
recomended to me is about one teaspoon to one tablespoon per ten gallons or 
so.  When my gups are having stress and other problems this seems to do more 
than a whole drawer full of chemicals.  The biggest problem I have run into 
with keeping salt in the tanks is the salt deposits on and around the outside 
filter or near the outlet of the UGF.  Salt crusties on the tank lip and hood 
get pretty gross.  I have yet to kill anything else in my tanks that I wasn't 
intending to kill with this treatment, but since my current setup is less 
guppies and more other critters I have-here it comes, people- passed the 
alt.
:)
 DL> My air pumps on all the time.
  Heh.  That is just too good a straight line not to work with...nothing 
personal.  :)
... His air pump's on but no hose is connected!
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