What is the difference between aquarium salt and sea salt

We hope you enjoyed this guide. If you did, please share it with your friends, and do feel free to tell us what you think about using salt in your tank in the comments box below. Alison Page has been an avid fish keeper for over 35 years and has owned many different species of freshwater tropical fish including bettas. Currently Alison has two large freshwater tanks.

The first tank has two huge fancy goldfish who are almost ten years old and still looking as good as ever. In the other, she has a happy community of tiger barbs, green tiger barbs, corydoras catfish, platys, and mollies. Nice work Alison, I won my first fish when I was in first grade at the school carnival ring toss. Me and my little goldfish went home and my parents noticed I really liked it.

I custom build aquariums now and have won first place in all my competitions with both fresh and saltwater tanks. Keep up the good work and the promotion of the hobby, sincerely, Mike M. Unique Aquaria. I have 42 bettas who is a parents and their babies. I was confused with every kinds of salt which recommends in the web. But the ick was cleared up as was the fungus on one neon.

Even the crypts did fine. I used one tbts to 5 gal for 2wks. Then went back to tap water slowly over a wk. No ick return. If a fish gets an abrasion and it shows a bacterial growth I use the sea salt with out issues. My tap water is naturally 7. They all do fine. Aquarium Forum Search forums. What's new. Log in Register. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

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I heard that you can as long as there is no yellow prussiate of soda an anti caking agent. I am not sure why though Another common name for Coarse Salt is Pickling Salt.