Is it Ok to put sand dollars found on the beach into a tropical aquarium?
by Aquaboy on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | 7 Comments
I have a 16 gallon aquarium, we found some sand dollars on the beach. Is it ok to put them into my tropical fish tank? I have 2 tetra neons and 2 zebra danios
if the fish don’t care it is.
As long as you wash and sterilize them.
It’s probably fine, just wash them well first, since you have a freshwater aquarium.
no unless it is saltwater tank
you actually can put a sand dollar in a fresh water aquarium , just soak it first in tap water maybe a day or so and rinse it well a lil salt is good for an aquarium but if it was found on a shore beach or store bought it was probably just dried out without de-salting and this might be a tad too much salt depending on tank size…..but yeah go ahead as long as pre soaked to release as much salt as possible
it should be fine if you wash it and let it sit in water for the whole day however you know you have schooling fish and you have a pretty good size aquariam to add more so you should add 2 more neon tetras and 1 more zebra danio
You can add the sand dollars (just rinse and use an old toothbrush) to your tank.
Remember these items will raise the PH slightly in the water so you may want to keep an eye on the PH’