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Chicken Soup for your pond:
Grandma's chicken soup helped you get over your cold because of the salt in the broth. Gargling with salt water cures your sore throat. Salt sprays, clear up your sinus infection. So, why not use the healing power of salt as a natural medicinal for your pond?
At low concentrations salt can be used to treat the entire pond or quarantine tanks for fish stress, nitrite, and to treat pond parasites.
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CAUTION: Whenever used, salt should always be dissolved in a bucket of pond water before being added to the pond.
Undissolved salt can irritate fish gills resulting in injury or death.
Iodized table salt should NEVER be used in ponds as iodine is toxic to fish.
Be especially careful when adding any salt to tanks that contain aquatic plants as salt can have toxic effect.
Before adding salt to your tank, remove any zeolite products.
Fish tend to excrete excessive amounts of ammonia when salted, so be sure to test your water for ammonia
spikes with Microbe-lift Ammonia Test Strips.
DOSING:
Small Tank: 1/2 cup salt per 10 gallons of pond water.
Large Tank/pond: 5 cups salt per 100 gallons of pond water.
For Stress reduction: 2 1/2 cups salt per 100 gallons of pond water
As a topical treatment for sick fish: Mix salt with tank water until a thick paste consistency. Use new basting brush to apply to affected areas such as areas of excessive slime, or reddened spots on head, back, or under belly. Be careful not to get salt in eyes or gills. Dispose or sterilize brush to prevent contaminating other fish.
Salt will not evaporate from the tank and must be removed by water changes.
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