Aquarium salt for dp's?
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Miller535
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Aquarium salt for dp's?
Is aqaurium salt recomended for dp's. Different people say different things. Some say only certain species of fish should have it. Others say that it is natural for every tropical/fresh water area due to evaporation from oceans near by. So aqaurium salt or not?
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
Thanks pp but that was very vauge. At the end he basically said for some kinds of fish all the time others only if they are sick. Well which is a dp?
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
I believe that aquarium salt is used for some medication situations; however not necessary or not commonplace to be used for puffers (or any other type of fish) unless you have reason to use it, as specified within the article... Depends on your water, and situation - not on the DP.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
So, is salt worth its salt? Definitely. It may be a part of the treatment of choice in certain conditions during an acute infection. It may even be part of the proper regimen for long-term maintenance of certain types of fish. (Meaning BW) Should it always be in your FW tank regardless of your fish or your water? In my humble opinion and in my experience, absolutely not.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
Ok. Just curious. Thats a somewhat controversal topic. I know cichlids, especially african cichlids are suppose to have it all the time. I put a special african salt mix in my cichlid tank. I will leave it out of the puffer tank.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
I use table salt for my puffs. One time I've used this blue salt that had made my whole tank blue 
but yeah I do use salt in my tanks
but yeah I do use salt in my tanks
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
PP, please stop!
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
There is no sound physiologic reason for using salt routinely in any tank of fish other than brackish water fish, and those shoulnd have marine mix added, not table salt.
As Pufferpunk pointed out earlier, for certain infections (such as FW ich) and certain condirions (such as nitrite toxicity), table salt may be used short-term. This is not at all routine use.
IMHO and IME, routine use of table salt is more likely to be harmful for most FW fish than helpful. That use is likely the most common and the most absurd aquarium myth.
As Pufferpunk pointed out earlier, for certain infections (such as FW ich) and certain condirions (such as nitrite toxicity), table salt may be used short-term. This is not at all routine use.
IMHO and IME, routine use of table salt is more likely to be harmful for most FW fish than helpful. That use is likely the most common and the most absurd aquarium myth.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
Pufferpunk wrote:PP, please stop!
Ok I will
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
Cichlids require a salt that is different from general aquarium salt and that salt geared at the region that the specific cichilid is from, mainly for the mineral content.Miller535 wrote:Ok. Just curious. Thats a somewhat controversal topic. I know cichlids, especially african cichlids are suppose to have it all the time. I put a special african salt mix in my cichlid tank. I will leave it out of the puffer tank.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
Yeah, it's not really "salt" at all. It's more of a water hardener.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
sorry pufferpunk. Saw someone else call you that and thought it was a nick name. didnt mean anything by it
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
LOL, I was talking to PolishPuff, I call him PP too.
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Re: Aquarium salt for dp's?
"Salt: any of a class of compounds formed by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of an acid with elements or groups, which are composed of anions and cations, and which usually ionize in solution; a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base." Dictionary.com
Table salt is a salt, specifically sodium chloride (NaCl), plus some trace additives.
Marine mix is a large number of salts and some
other compounds in a defined mixture.
Rift lake salts are mixtures of salts which may or may not be specific to individual Rift lakes.
If you just say "salt" in a thread such as this, you may be confusing rather than clarifying.
DPs are FW fish. They do not need any type of salt addition.
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Table salt is a salt, specifically sodium chloride (NaCl), plus some trace additives.
Marine mix is a large number of salts and some
other compounds in a defined mixture.
Rift lake salts are mixtures of salts which may or may not be specific to individual Rift lakes.
If you just say "salt" in a thread such as this, you may be confusing rather than clarifying.
DPs are FW fish. They do not need any type of salt addition.
HTH
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