Salt
Thanks again Ray - I am going to use a token amount for now and hope the mollies will forgive me. All 3 seem quite active, with the male forcing himself on the two girls. I see you mentioned that stress can be brought on by being substantially chilled. lol - it’s in the 90’s here in Florida and I have had to add frozen water bottles a couple times to bring the temps down in the afternoons. All the fish seem to like it - now that they are used to the cracking sound - and swim around it. Guess it’s refreshing to them. Barbara In a message dated 6/10/2008 6:18:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sevenspringss@wmconnect.com writes:
Barbara, No apologies necessary. This (salt) is a perfectly legitimate topic to bring up and one that probably a good number of our members appreciated as being brought out into the open to hear the pro’s and con’s about it, and its place in the freshwater aquarium. If you still feel the need to use salt, even though you’ve learned its not necessary, by all means — go ahead — a token amount won’t do any harm. For Mollies to feel any advantage of adding salt though, much more needs to be added — which will be much more than many other species can tolerate. Still, at least a small amount is more than none. Unless a larger amount of salt than the token one Tablespoon per 5 gallons is used (which no one can do if they have salt-sensitive fish and/or plants to worry about), I doubt this amount would prevent the initial onset of Ich if the fish were stressed (substantially chilled) even if it may make it harder for this parasite. Ray
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