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

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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