It's just rock salt used for water softeners. Or icy sidewalks, but we don't
live there G. Just don't get the pellets (yellow bag). You want plain ol'
rock salt. (I have a water softener that I use the yellow bag for, and then
I have the blue bag that I use for the pond. Every once in awhile, when my
husband gets in a "helpful" mood, he'll dump my fish salt in the water
softener to top it off. Oh well - it's cheap!)

Lee



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"Lee B." wrote in message
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Volts, go to Home Depot, Lowe's, whatever and get the Morton Salt in the
blue bag. You'll get 20 lbs. of it for about $3.00 or so. It's fine for
fish.

Lee

OK, thanks. Is that Morton in the blue bag rock salt or water softener
salt?


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"KRF" wrote in message
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Just need to know what kind of salt to buy, my local pond store
sells
jars for 20.00 each. There has to be a cheaper alternative, I just
don't know what. Can I use un iodized table salt? Water softener
salt?
Thanks

Don't use iodized salt. Rock salt is best because it contains not
only
Sodium salt, but Calcium and Magnesium salts as well, which yields
better
results when trying to improve the fishes osmoregulation as compared
to
using pure NaCl (water softener salt). 99.9 % pure NaCl water
softener
salt
does work and is inexpensive, however if you can find bulk rock salt,
IMHO,
that would be preferred. "Aquarium Salt" and "Pond Salt" _is_ rock
salt,
just with an expensive price tag.