I am totally amazed your fish arent dying or dead with 1% salt that long. are you
sure it isnt 0.1%?
how much salt did you put into how much water?
In some places they got trouble doing their chemistry and getting the decimal points
in the right places... in some koi books too, so be very very careful about adding
chemicals of ANY kind including salt without checking carefully.
0.1% is good salt concentration long term (0.9lb per 100 gallons of water)
from 0.1% - 0.3% must be used short term and with caution as some fish respond poorly
or can be burned.
0.3% and up is only a bath, not in the pond concentration. Ingrid

"ciel" wrote:
I had been doing my reading during the winter and read a few articles on
what a good idea it was to dose the pond with salt in early spring to 1% as
a precaution and preventative for parasites etc...........
HOwever I did not read the rest of the advice to do water changes and bring
this down afterwards.

It has remained at 1% for a couple of months now so I guess not surprising
the plants are suffering..
Thankfully the fish seem none the worse !!

As the saying goes "A little knowledge is often worse than none at all" !!


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