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what kind of salt do you use ? | 10 comments (10 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Please do not use table salt ! ! ! (none / 0) (#5)
by dany boy on Fri Mar 30, 2007 at 01:55:05 AM PST

In my tank I added a table spoon marine salt for
10litters of water .I have box filter "Resun" with active carbon .In your replies i didn't hear nothing about salt with Iodium .I don't know why in our stores salt is with added Iodium.The best way is to buy salt from agriculture shops or pure marine salt.

Re: Please do not use table salt ! ! ! (none / 0) (#7)
by saseniukk on Sat Mar 31, 2007 at 06:32:34 PM PST

Hi there. We use iodine to promote proper thyroid gland function in ourselves. Iodine is also used as a sterilizer. It will kill off bacteria in your fish tank. Table salts are fine without iodine (without additives), sea salt is still sodium chloride. I put in a touch of pickling salt (coarse table salt with no iodine) and a touch of epsom salts (for the magnesium sulphide).
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Of course seas salt has some iodine. Fish and (none / 0) (#6)
by unclescott on Fri Mar 30, 2007 at 08:41:34 PM PST

people need trace quantities of it. We have "cured" the fishy version of goiter by adding sea salt to the water. :)

Fish goiter is a swelling of the opercular covers (the gill covers) and area below the gills. Growths on gills have been also attributed to that iodine deficiency)

That is cheaper that the iodine added medical food.

I don't know where it got started, but the advice that fish need iodine free salt is just a myth. It is an essential element for most (all?) animals. Guppies, with their tolerance for sea salt, certainly do not have a problem with it.

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what kind of salt do you use ? | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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