The Puffer Forum

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?

Total waste of $$$ & harmful to many softwater species, like plecos, etc: library/water-filtration/thesaltoftheearth/

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.

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.

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.