salt

So the other day I saw a $19.00 spotted green puffer with lots of ick on him but fell in love anyways. I asked if I could get a discount to take the puffer home and get him healthy again. I ended up getting an offer to take him for free, so of course I jumped on it, complete impulse buy. He is...

Thinking of starting a species-only pet puffer tank. Probably just one figure 8 puffer in a 20 gallon with some sand, plants and good filtration. I realize I'd have to get it cycled first, but after that would it be hard maintaining the salinity of the tank? The components of keeping it...

...instead of aquarium salt? I have a 29 gallon tank with a green spotted puffer and two white tetras. When I bought them the girl at the fish store told me the aquarium salt should be fine, but I'm having trouble getting the salinity over 1.0005. Should I switch salt? My puffer doesnt...

We decided to give sea monkeys a go as fish food after our first attempt at hatching brine shrimp didnt work out so good... Anyway I have tried looking this up on the internet and cannot find anything on how much extra salt to add per 100mls(or any other measurement for that matter) to larger...

I have my male betta in a roughly 5 Gal tank (see my sig below, note all the other fish are being moved out within a week or 2) I went away for a night, came back and looked in my tank and swore... It looked like he had the Dropsy and bad... He was hugely swollen, Pale yellow ( this only...

I have a 1 inch green spotted puffer in a 5 gallon tank by itself. I feel like I made a mistake in the tank size. How much longer should I leave him in there or should I move him already. Also, people have different opinions on whether you should use aquarium salt or marine salt:fish:. Any...

I bought some macrobiotic sea salt the other day from a healthfood shop in my desperation to get some unprocessed/unrefined salt for a very sick looking male betta with fin rot ( and now with addition of pimafix as well, he is looking very healthy) it was at about 8pm and all aquariums in the...

yep..im breaking down my 55g salt tank and selling the equipment. so up for sale is a Current USA Satellite Single Compact Fluorescent, 2X65 Watt, 48 inch lighting system. i am located in bloomington, indiana, but will ship as well, (with some help from the buyer.) highest bid gets it.