hc8719 said:
scaleless fish arent suppose to have aquarium salt?
you think this would be bad for my bgk then? i also have balloon mollies and yellow chromides, which i believe need salt, as well as ghost shrimp
Regardless of salt tolerance/preference...
Your fish are not compatible in the first place, your BGK will get large enough to snack on your Mollies and shrimp.
Most tankraised mollies 'can' do without salt, but will be happier in brackish conditions, truly thrive and live longer.
And yes, BW/SW requires marine salts, not standard/ordinary aquarium/household salts that would generally be used for medicinal purposes.
Regardless of however many generations removed from the wild we cannot in so short a time change a genetic preference evolved over millenia.
Weasel F. said:
But the one reason I see for not useing salt in your tank fishy1954 is the catfish. They are scaleless and it would burn there skin to the point of death.
(Weasel this is not directed at you in particular.)
Some scaleless fish are more suseptible to adverse reactions to salt than scaled fish, but many scaled fish are also prone adverse reactions to salt too.
Many scaleless fish can handle lower doses of salt, especially when added gradually, those that can can handle enough to allow salts use as a remedy.
We must research our individual species tolerances.
This generalizing and extremism is not good and may result in a situation where certain species (Plecos, Cats, Loaches, Tetras and ect.) otherwise easily treated with salt in moderation are lost.