she wasnt asking that. she was asking how many cups for 0.1%. and it is very
unlikely she already got such a high level that it would be toxic. I recommend
people use 0.05% overwinter and increase it in spring, then let it dilute out during
the year unless there are really heavy rains.
there is no down side to salt as a prevention and a stimulant to slime coat. even in
their padded pond, my fish scrape against the hanging lilly pots and this and that
when they come up in a feeding frenzy.
salt isnt anything like antibiotics. Ingrid

"BenignVanilla" wrote:
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roughly...
1/2 cup salt in 1 gallon = 3%, the concentration for a dip.
1/2 cup in 10 gallons = 0.3%
1/2 cup in 30 gallons = 0.1%
10 x 1/2 cup or 5 cups of the course rock salt used in water softeners
will give you
about 0.1%
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Don't you mean a minimum of 0.1%? Does the OP know the current salinity of
the water?

BV.
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