How and When to Use Salt with Aquarium Fish
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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Regular salt (sodium chloride or NaCl) is one of the best aquarium medications in the world, but you must be careful to use it correctly since it does not evaporate from water. Cory explains what kinds of infections it treats, the difference between NaCl salt and other salts, and recommended dosage amounts.
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If I use salt do I have to remove the plants?
The osmoregulatory system of marine life deals with that. The most interesting are estuarine life which can deal with varying salinities. Also, what Cory is referring to is FRESHWATER simple life (protists such as ich) vs. multi-cell/organismal life such as fish.
Pro tip - Always mix meds in a jug of tank water before you add it to the tank. It dissolves salt and stops dosing mistakes affecting the system.
I stick it in HOB filter before the filter media
Good advice; thanks!
And it stains stuff less
Also keeps fish from eating chunks of it!
Why didn’t I read this five mins ago before adding salt to my tanks?
I’ve used API salt for about 8 years now. Works every time for ich, parasites, infections, and clamped fin. The tricky part is finding a balance so as to not harm the live plants.
Hey brother I got 22 blue tilapia in my 55 I'm trying to get some to stop flashing on bottom of tank. I'm going to add level 1 recommended dose of salt, however I also have hornwort in the tank. Should I remove it before adding the salt?
I would hate to as lots of the smaller fish eat whatever the plant traps. And provides shelter. Thank you for any advice you can share with me.
Ok for those of you who have kitchen scales and like precision (assuming aquarium salt tbs that Cory is using weights 17 g or 0.6 oz):
Level 1 - 1.5 g per liter or 0.2 oz per gallon
Level 2 - 2.24 g per liter or 0.3 oz per gallon
Level 3 - 4.49 g per liter or 0.6 oz per gallon
Btw, if you decide to get your salt in the grocery store, avoid anticaking agent. This is a citation from Clinical Guide to Fish Medicine: ''Some salts contain anticaking agents (e.g. sodium ferrocyanide) and these must be avoided as they can be highly toxic to fish (Noga 2010a)."
I've been using salt to quarantine fish for almost 15 years and can say, I've never had ick or any kind of parasite issues. And when I had saltwater, I do the opposite and lower salt content.
Also going back to what Cory said about getting parasites after treating with salt, I think it could be because their is different parasites that thrive in higher salinity. So one of my mentors said to reduce the Salinity to kill off the new parasites.
Although I still have 2 freshwater tanks, I’ve started consuming mostly saltwater content to learn how to make my new reef tank thrive. I really miss watching Cory and aquarium co-op. I really wish you guys would dip a little into saltwater. There’s nobody like you on the salty side!
I swear your team has a little camera setup around me and my tanks and decides their videos based on what I’m going thru, all your latest videos have been uploading right when I’m looking for that specific information! Thanks and keep up the great work!
Living in Australia,Salt and Epsom salts is vital to my fish keeping. Thanks Coopy 💚👍
I worked at a tropical fish importer for 4 years. Salt was used in every tank on arrival. Then other med's as needed. our dose was one cup per 20 breeder. With a drip running about 3 to 5 gallon pre day. We important 50 to 100 boxes a week from all over the world.
May I know how many tablespoon do I need for my 15 gallon tank? Thank you
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For medical treatment I would use 3/4 cup. If you don't have plants. If normal use 1table spoon per 5 gallon's . Is ware I start with my tanks. Sorry I didn't see your question.
@@scottcahala7779 when u treat fish with salt to sure sickness when do you water change. Like 30% water change once a day for a few days or do you wait a few days before water changing?
Wow - another amazing video for the hobby. Cory, the amount you have done not only to build the hobby, but also to make it genuinely better, is astounding. I am a firm believer in trying the least aggressive treatment techniques first, so I think this video will be another great help to many new aquarists!
That guy is a F'ing fish wisperer.i heard a rumor,just a rumor that somewhere in the depths the ones with fins built monument for him.
Years ago I used salt with goldfish as a preventative…never had any infections of any kind. They were very healthy.
Low dose…nit what you’d use if the fish had an infection. Don’t remember the amount…maybe a third of the dose for sick fish.
Speaking of salt and killing bacteria, another point to add, is if you have a sore throat, mouth infection, or some other thing that’s going on with your throat and mouth using extremely salty water to gargle with is highly recommended by doctors to help kill the bacteria and prevent the need for antibiotics
When using salt-how long should it sit in the tank? Should I do a water change daily? Should I make sure I get rid of all the salt at some point?
I’m so happy this Christmas Eve because my Betta after being treated with aquarium salt for a few days according to the instructions on the box has finally come out to eat and to swim a bit! I couldn’t figure out which disease he had but he was definitely dying!
Thank you so much! One of my tiger barbs seem to have a tiny injury and salt has really been very helpful. I didn't know you had finer salt which would be better measuring out than my rock salt
Thanks for the video. Can salt address internal parasites and worms?
Finally, a first class discussion on salt use
I wonder who the first person was who said my freshwater fish are sick maybe I should try dropping some salt into the aquarium and see if that does anything
Isn't that an old video re-edited or something...definitely the old house/ studio... I'm a big fan either way...! Keep up your awesomeness and go enjoy some nature today...!
Thank you so much for this video. My new sapphire blue were not doing to good had put them in a isolation tank thank goodness they started getting a fungus infection I did a 25 percent water change bumped the temperature up gave them a good feed of brine and add salt within 24 hours they have done a complete turn around
Always sharing fantastic knowledge! Thank you!
Thanks for this video!
I've been having trouble tracking down meds at my local shops recently, I didn't realize salt was an option for treatment.
edit: I discovered the other day that apparently Health Canada (I live in Canada) has outlawed a number of fish medication a few years ago... basically everything!
There’s been a concerted effort to ban all fish meds in Canada. Only through a veterinarian can you get them. I believe it’s to reduce people from buying these for human consumption. Same reason they’re taking guns. Amoxicillin is amoxicillin. With a global depression and war, lots of prepping folk have been stockpiling these meds.
US too. They just ignore it...
I have recommended salt to so people because of your past videos. Whenever your videos come up I watch as soon as I can to learn as much as I can.
I love your videos! You explain them in a way thay teaches me why i shiuld or should not do that. Instead of someone just saying to use salt to treat it, you teach us why.
Thats huge! Thanks!
A straight forward question: Is regular salt, bought in a grocery store, without added iodine. Is this the baseline salt for use as described in this video?
Non-iodized salt, especially sea salt, should work. However, coarse Kosher salt or rock salt would be better. I always use Kosher salt, because I use it in my barbecue stuff and have a lot on hand.
I'm using regular salt from a grocery store, fine-grained regular NaCl salt one can put in a salt shaker. That and rising temperature to 30 ˚C / 86 F in case of mild Ich outbreak.
Great video and information, I always use aquarium salt with quarantine fish
Which salt do you recommend for a betta with popeye in both eyes?
How much and how often?
Currently dosing erythromicin for 7 days.
Cory, could you, please, indicate salt dosage in weight per volume? Otherwise in video you address how important it is to take into consideration salt crystal size, but don't give a solution to the problem. Personally, when dosing salt, I found it very difficult to find reliable information on how to convert tbs per volume to weight per volume and I would imagine that others have struggled with it too. I couldn't simply dose with tablespoons as in Finland I don't have access to fine aquarium salt.
No way to know for certain since dried salt still got some amount of water in it, but assume your salt is 80 90% NaCl, put 3 grams in 100ml water to get roughly 2.5% solution like fritz package said. Or buy salinity meter or sth more accurate
You can just use normal rock salt from the grocery store just make sure it is not the iodized salt. 1 table spoon is 15 or 16g i am not so sure but you can look it up online.
@@FatherFH I haven't found pure fine salt in our grocery stores. Its always with anticaking agent and iodine or other added minerals. I did search online how many grams is one tbs of salt and I got widely different results.
I'm sure it would vary slightly depending on the specific measuring spoon, but I have the exact salt he was using in the video, and a tablespoon of it weighed 17 grams.
@@purpleworm4725 interesting. Usually rock salt is pure and in bigger crystals. You can try the health food store or where you buy multivitamins. Maybe even the pool section. If you really want you can buy saltwater aquarium salt, it is much more expensive but it will last you forever
It is not really an exact science so if the fish should be fine. It is not a dangerous chemical like the medication so if you go a little over it wont kill stuff right away.
I use mortan all natural water softener salt and I blend it in a blender before I use it. I blend enough to fill up a big coffee can and that lasts a long time. A 40 pound bag of rock salt is so much cheaper than buying aquarium salt.
In case you don't get aquarium salt like me in Costa Rica (LATAM) you can use cattle salt.
Awsome information as usual. Thanks.
Great video! I just dosed salt and ick meds because I believe an aggressive rotkeil severum I have has been chasing many of my other cichlids around and the other fishes developed those stressed ick white spots. They seem to have disappeared but will continue dosing it. :)
Great video! Thank you Corey for sharing your knowledge!!
can i use this while also treating may 5gal with hydrogen peroxide?
Will salt cure columnaris in my betta and if so how much should I use and how long do I leave him in the saltwater? Also will the salt stress him out? Thank you in advance!!
Love your videos man anyway you could do a video on Red claw crabs ? 🦀 I’ve done a lot of research but I would love to learn something new !
My RCS got the green fungus. I dip them in salt water for 5 minutes. The fungus is gone after 3 treatments. 1-tbs in 2 cups water I used instant ocean salt.
Hi i need your help i have gupies and always die because of fin rot can you learn me how to treat them
Glad to see you are not dissing out salt as fish treatment. On one hand there is better medicine, salt works often the best. For example if I treated Ich with Esha 2000 and Esha Exit, I could kill some plants. Salt is less likely to do that. In both cases a temperature needs to be raised to 30 °C / 86 F, which is way above what most fish and plants are comfortable with. Cysts don't like it either and also their lifecycle is faster.
Please tell me if it will work on colemnaris?
It can yes, maracyn/ich x combo also works on columnaris.
Cory!!! Do you remember that video with the house with all the angles Brian Barczyk just did a video on setting up a reptile tank in it
It's always good to tty, but in my case when it starts getting to the point you need to medicate and quarantine, it's usually too late
hey , thanks for the video i added half sea salt spoon per 3 gallons and measuring the tds it went ffom 112 to 888 anw guppies can tolerate such a tds but the question what tds is suitable for treating mild ich or finrot infections thanks?
plz plz plz tell how long to use Phosphate-Ozor. I have it placed in front on my filter Tidal 55. Bc, my phosphates are high n caused green cloudy water. 😢😢😢 plz plz advise.
I think my Electric Blue Ram has “hole in the head”. Would salt help? I also have a shrimp, some mystery snails, and plants. So can I still use salt if it would help HITH? Thanks anyone who can help! I feel bad for my fish. Doing water changes and going to remove carbon filter. I feed good food and frozen worms. Water parameters look good. So not sure what to do.
I have a blue crawfish in a 10 gallon tank with one 3 inch goldfish. Can the crawfish handle salt? This goldfish isn't sick, but I have another larger goldfish that is about 5 inches long in a 30 gallon tank with one small goldfish. The large goldfish is the one who has a white fluffy sore on it's back. It's been a bump for about 4 months, and just opened up. I did a 25% water change today. I am going out tomorrow to get some aquarium salt, API Melafix, and some API Pimafix. Which one should I try first or can I try all of them together? Should the blue crawfish no be around these chemicals?
missed the opportunity to say " any aquarist worth his salt knows this"
Thanks for this! Gonna try the epson salt
I have a roughly 5 or 7 inch comet goldfish with dropsy in a 10k+ gallon pond. None of the other 40 or so fish in there have any problems but this one has dropsy. It has bloated slowly over several months, i originally thought it was eggs until the scales started to pinecone. I do not believe the problem is anything other than bad genetics because it's a comet based on none of the other fish being affected for several months. But I want to relieve the bloating with salt. Once I remove him from the pond and put him in a quarantine tank what kind and how much salt should I use to suck the water out that is swelling him?
I love your videos !!! Thank you for the help!
When should you use salt ?
Thanks for this! My Betta fish has had some bad infection for a while and meds weren’t working. Do you have to change the water each time you add more salt? Or can I keep adding it everyday?
Help please 🙏 - if you have no clue how much salt is already in the water (api salt) and cant do a complete water change and it’s urgent to get a nice level into the tank so don’t have time to add a teaspoon every water change for ages , Is there any way to test what’s in there to make sure not to overdose the tank as it already had enough but didn’t know .
Thanks for the trip in the wayback machine! Taco hat. Great video
Am i supposed to add 3 tbs per gallon daily for 5 days? Or just one time and then check again after 5 days if i need more?
I’m have a betta right now that is swollen on the gill arch (right under his mouth ) how do i help ? Im new to this and i absolutely love him he gets along with all my guppies and never shows aggression.
Very good information.
Hi Corey. Wondering if you’ll be at Aquashella in Orlando this year? Have been looking to see when it is and haven’t found any information 😟
I’ve had my male betta for about a week now and I’ve only actually seen it eat 2 times and I’ve tried pellets, flakes and freeze dried bloodworms. Any clue to why it may not be eating? It seems to swim up for air and then immediately swim down to go hide behind its structure at the bottom of the substrate.
Is 1 tablespoon for every 3 gallons enough for ich but not too strong for a heavily planted tank with assassin snails and caridina shrimp?
Great video but like you said at the start measuring volume (table spoons etc) doesn't make a lot of sense. Since we don't all have your brand of salt, can you also include weight per volume (eg grams per liter, or even grams per gallon?)?
Google to convert ⚖⚖
Can Aquarium Coop make some salt that isn't $5/lbs? What does Fritz put in theirs to justify that price?
What salt do I use for my bichir she has blotted belly
how about cycles? will it affects beneficial bacteria in the biological filter??
Hi, I need help I have 3 fantails which have been sitting at the bottom of the tank for few days i tried a few things but now I’ve noticed Ick & only have Organic Celtic salt it’s got 92 minerals & could I use this I’ve got no where to get medicine at the moment..
can you make a video about brakish fish and shrimp?
Hello. I would like advice.
Im treating some parasite in my freshwater tank. (Probably ich)
I have goldfish aka water piggies.
How many grams of Epsom salt to 300 litres aquarium tank?
I have hard time counting it. I want to help my babies but i don't want to overdose them and hurt them.
Dont use cups and teaspoons.. use weight.
Hey I'm from Canada nd have a 20 gallon tank for quarantining. Still newer to everything, but not many options here for putting meds in when getting new fishy. Going to add some pygmy corys about 12 of them until ready for my tank. Would you say add 4 tablespoons to my tank or you think just doing like a 5 gallon water change a day for a week with a tablespoon of salt would be better?
how long do you do the salt bath for
Clown Loach: Keep that salt away from me!!!
I want to treat my angel fish with foggy eyes. can I use this type of salt and should I do what are changes in between every day or dose everyday?
My orandas recently started spitting out white secretions with tiny light brown seed things in them. I've looked all over and couldn't find out what's wrong. Have you ever seen that before?
What about diatomaceous earth for planted tanks with lots of fish?
Pickeling salt is just as good . And way way way cheaper
It must have been recorded quite a while ago. I’m now in the process of starting my first aquarium and I’ve been thinking how to go about quarantining the fish. Thanks for this video, now I’ll go with the salt in the quarantine tank, as a lot of the substances you use and recommend for quarantine are not available without prescription in Europe.
Is salt good for a baby Cory catfish
How long can you expose Cory's to salt for? Some sites say 48 hours others say 2 weeks - what's your experience around duration?
I put a bit of Himalayan pink salt in today. It’s what we had in the kitchen.🤷🏻♂️
Did this work? I have the same
My fish always dies when I use aquarium salt. Over the years I've tested various brands and amounts. Either it's not enough to treat the fish or it's too much and shortens the fish's lifespan.
Question, how much salt is too much for live plants? I remember using a "Nitrite Absorbing" pad in my filter before and it worked but all my plants started dying so I took it out and had to research more. Once I did that I figured out it was basically just a filter soaked in salt water.
Oh my gosh. I did the same thing and couldn’t figure out why my plants suffered… thank you.
currently dealing with what we think is epistylis (hard to tell if ich) and at least 1ppm nitrite readings. Currently doing at least 50% water change daily and adding Prime and Stability as labeled. We have moved our fish to a hospital tank and added API super ich cure and also added some salt (1 tbsp per 3 gal), reduced the heat (didnt want to let the epistylis thrive in warmer water) but I also understand that it will slow the ich life cycle down (if it is ich). While we are new to this hobby, we are doing our best to research and are open to suggestions. There's just a lot of information out there and some of it is conflicting. We want our fish to thrive and I want to reduce their stress and pain as much as possible but also want to keep them alive. Thanks!
Ok here's the thing. I just convert my salt water tank to fresh water. Basically I already do twice water change and still got around 1.003-1.005 ppt salinity. Is it save if I put in my fresh water fish?
for those who want to try salt treatment and dont have heater( i live in tropical country so i dont need heater), here is my experience with it.
I have multiple tanks with tetras and corydoras as im a big fan of tetras. Tetras and other fish adapt very well with 1 tbps of salt per gallon ( I didnt gradually add it as i find it pointless).
My corydoras however is not doing well, it swim frantically so i moved it into my temporary tank.
My live plants, duckweed, anubias barteri, java fern and amazon sword did well. I find it interesting so i researched it, and found out anubias, java fern and amazon sword tolerate salt very well as they can survive in low to mid brackish water
Interesting! Thank you for the insight
Can I use non iodine salt that I bought from the grocery store. It's pure salt no chemicals added. Straight Outta Japan Hokkaido.
My Pleco has a big white chunk around his dorsal fin little smaller than a pencil eraser, appears to be spreading… was going to try salt but I also have Silver Dollars and Cory’s and a couple others I have no idea what are. Do you think I can get away with treating with salt or is there something else you’d recommend? The Pleco is about a foot long in a 100 gallon tank.
Can you tell me is it one table spoon per 3 gallon for Celtic salt please ?
Its just salt. Or use Kosher
Has anyone tried Pink Himalayan salt?
Hello, how much grams NaCl is in one table spoon that you mention?
Could I use salt as a quarantine medecine?
I use a coffee grinder to grind my salt
Do u have a batta
@Aquarium Co-op will using salt in my quarantine tank harm the beneficial bacterial?
@Ricardo thank you
That's why you set up a hospital tank
So do you keep adding salt everyday? Or just once?
Ok so what if someone has scaleless fish and live plants. How much salt per gallon?
That same salt is very expensive in Costa Rica haha, it is not cheap, we use Cow Salt haha
Informative 👍
Do I need to add salt during every waterchange?
No. Unless you want to.
I think the trick with garlic works well too
I mix crushed garlic into my Repashy mix, it works wonders.
Also tannins, but when those got low and filter got dirty, long-dormant Ich broke out.