Freshwater Aquarium Salt Vs . Marine Sea Salt?? Difference?? Will Give 10 Pts . For Best Answer!!?
by Aquaboy on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments
i just brought 4 fiddler crabs , and one red crab for my 20 gal. aquarium . i read online that they need brackish water ( meaning salt water and freshwater ) . i went to the aqurium store and they had both marine salt and freshwater salt . so…how do i create a brackish enviroment ? what salt do i use to make the brackish enviroment?? alos , what is the difference between salt water and marine type fish ? i know tropical fish is like mollies and platy’s . what is some examples of salt and marine type fish . can tropical fish be housed with SALT type fish ??
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sea salt i think
ok certain fish are brackish, partially salt with fresh. if you go to example liveaquaria.net they have a specific section. you cannot keep tropicals with with brackish because they will die. tropicals are fresh water. i would say go with freshwater salt but i would ask the people at the store. i have seen freshwater salt to calm fish at petco but im not sure if that is the same used for brackish water. hope i helped at all
Use marine salt. In addition to just salt it has other trace minerals that are required for saltwater set ups.
Mollies are actually brackish lol. Freshwater fish have little tolerance for salt. Salt water fish need to be kept in a marine aquarium. Some brackish fish can be kept in either, but a good bit can only handle the amount of salinity found in a brackish environment and not the extremes at one end or the other.
Monos, Scats, Black tip catfish can live either in tropical freshwater or marine saltwater. To create brackish water you must know what brakish water is and where it comes from. Brakish water forms where streams rivers lakes run off into a pool right before running off into the ocean. So it is a mixture of fresh and salwater marine water mixing together. The thing with marine salwater is the ph is very high as fresh water has a ph usually about 7.0. salwater 8.0 – 8.6. So the more important question here is brakish water what should be the ph. If you want to learn more about that you could research it just google brakish water ph. But to answer your concern I will tell you through experience fiddler crabs and crawladads ( freshwater lobsters ) do fine with regular water, just add some fresh water salt to the tank like 1tablespoon for every 10 gallons. Just keep them fed with those pellets you buy at the pet store and dont worry. peace out