Salt Needed?
I have a 10 gallon tank, live plants, that I have had running for a couple of months now. I feed it with flake food daily and all my API tests are running at zero with a pH of 7.8. (I started it with a filter from an established tank along with some gravel from the same tank). I just cannot figure out what fish to put in there. I was going to go with some fancy guppies but I already have a 29 gallon guppy tank. I am looking for something different without spending a fortune on them.
Today I went to a good LFS and found some cute fish - mollies, swords and platy’s. Not sure why I never considered them before. The owner’s son (an adult) said that I wouldn’t need to add salt with them. Now I haven’t paid a lot of attention to these discussions before because I have never had these types of fish nor really desired them, but I would swear that I have read that they like some salt. Am I right? If so, how much salt do they want? I would prefer not adding salt because I like having that backup in case I were to ever experience Ich.
The guy suggested getting four of them and said that I would be overrun with babies eventually. I do have a 55 gallon planted community tank with barbs, tetras, female bettas, and a pleco. I am guessing that if the babies get to be too much, I can add them there like I do my guppy babies. They become food, which is sad, but I have never had a problem with too many that I would want to sell. It is just a couple here and there.
I already have a ten gallon with a male betta, some white clouds and a couple of small cory’s in it. I would like something different for this tank.
Paula in Monroe, Michigan
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