Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mark.pank on March 05, 2013, 06:17:01 PM
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Does rift salt effect live aquatic plants? And if so are there alternitives to rift salt?
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I rarely use salt additives to my tanks, but when I do, I use kosher salt. Inexpensive, readily available, and effective.
At 1 tablespoon to 10 gallons, there is no effect on plants.
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Any type of salt is usually bad for freshwater plants. Even my water softener salt limits my ability to grow plants well.
Some plants will be more durable to salt.
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I hate salt.
Damn stuff has wreaked havoc on my tanks. (at least I think that is what I have narrowed it down to)
I am trying to minimize the use of it as much as possible.
Sorry I didnt really help to answer your question. ;)
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Interesting, everything I have read and have been told by several LFS, you are supposed to add a nominal amount of salt to your cichlid tanks. It is supposed to help cut down on diseases, parasites and help heal tatered fish...
I add roughly a handful of Kosher salt to my tank every time I do a WC on my 55 tank ...
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Interesting, everything I have read and have been told by several LFS, you are supposed to add a nominal amount of salt to your cichlid tanks. It is supposed to help cut down on diseases, parasites and help heal tatered fish...
I add roughly a handful of Kosher salt to my tank every time I do a WC on my 55 tank ...
For what it's worth I've never added salt in the year or so during which I've kept 50+ different species of fish, and have not had any issues with disease/parasites/healing, other than which I caused myself by not quarantining suspect new fish, etc. Which is not to say it won't help, just that it's not perhaps as 100% necessary as they're saying. Also most of my experience is with fish other than African cichilds, so they may need it more. I don't know.
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Interesting, everything I have read and have been told by several LFS, you are supposed to add a nominal amount of salt to your cichlid tanks. It is supposed to help cut down on diseases, parasites and help heal tatered fish...
I add roughly a handful of Kosher salt to my tank every time I do a WC on my 55 tank ...
Little bits, I think it is good.
But, using it to drastically raise hardness (like a LFS told me to do) it is NOT good.
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Any type of salt is usually bad for freshwater plants. Even my water softener salt limits my ability to grow plants well.
Some plants will be more durable to salt.
I defer to Tony (GrizzlysDad) as more expert than I on this matter. The only plants I keep are watersprite, lava moss, and java fern. They tolerate a bit of kosher salt as I described above. Note: I don't always use salt, just as a preventative or treatment as needed.