do you "salt "

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do you "salt "

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I've always added aquarium salt to my fw tanks is it needed will it harm fahakas? Is there any good bad or neither on it?
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Total waste of $$$ & harmful to many softwater species, like plecos, etc: library/water-filtration/thesaltoftheearth/
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I read the salt myth started back when people first started keeping GF in bowls. Someone discovered that a little salt would make the fish survive a little longer before the ammonia or nitrites took their toll.
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Salt is good for suppressing ich infestations. I once had an outbreak with my goldfish tank and done the salt and heat method. Even after the ich subsided I kept the tank salted weeks afterward to ensure the ich has been suppressed until its life cycle has been completed.
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Salt and heat is a valid Ich treatment. Routine salt use in tropical FW is superstition and harmful and basically dumb.

Goldfish are not tropicals. They are temperate.
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