I understand how salt would possibly kills parasites, in fact I have used marine salt in my pond when I have thought there is a problem with the fish. The one thing, and you mentioned the water changes, is that water evaporates, salt doesn't, water changes are essential.
I actually think the salt can be more effective than some treatments because it's a lot more stable and not easy to flush out. But definitely salt should not be seen as the first and only choice.
If you have a salt meter you can use it to calculate the exact water volume in your system, including filters pretty accurately! Salt weight in kg added, divide by % reading then multiply by 100 will give you your volume in litres, to get gallons, divide by 4.54. But remember, you only want to measure the change that the salt has made so it is essential to take a reading “before” adding any additional salt as there may still be some residual salt from a previous dosing or often tap water has trace elements and allow the salt to mix thoroughly through the whole system, say 24 hours!
Ive always salted .3% spring and start winter i use salt with many treatments , specially flukes and if bacterial i go upto .6% but never ever in 1 hit , salt is a natural healer aswell just salted upto .6 as ive got bacterial issue and lots flicking thats caused by flukes trying diff treatment cloverleaf absolute fluke plus says good for fluke and whitespot , then in few weeks il do water changes and salt again with accriflavrin covers going on this weekend and heater will be on very soon to only 12⁰ tho far to expensive
Awesome video Lee, love it loaded full of info and put together well on a divisive subject. Matthew is cool too 😃
Always try to keep them informative.
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Love the info and the editing Lee, belting info especially that about nitrite spike in spring 😊
Thanks for the feed back. just trying to make them interesting.
Once again great information.
great info lee
Aye up my ducks, thanks for the feedback. Everyone should check out your videos too!
@@leecalladine thanks buddy, see you soon
I used salt forcmy koi pond for years. No problem
I understand how salt would possibly kills parasites, in fact I have used marine salt in my pond when I have thought there is a problem with the fish. The one thing, and you mentioned the water changes, is that water evaporates, salt doesn't, water changes are essential.
I actually think the salt can be more effective than some treatments because it's a lot more stable and not easy to flush out. But definitely salt should not be seen as the first and only choice.
If you have a salt meter you can use it to calculate the exact water volume in your system, including filters pretty accurately!
Salt weight in kg added, divide by % reading then multiply by 100 will give you your volume in litres, to get gallons, divide by 4.54.
But remember, you only want to measure the change that the salt has made so it is essential to take a reading “before” adding any additional salt as there may still be some residual salt from a previous dosing or often tap water has trace elements and allow the salt to mix thoroughly through the whole system, say 24 hours!
Absolutely correct and seriously cool too.
Ive always salted .3% spring and start winter i use salt with many treatments , specially flukes and if bacterial i go upto .6% but never ever in 1 hit , salt is a natural healer aswell just salted upto .6 as ive got bacterial issue and lots flicking thats caused by flukes trying diff treatment cloverleaf absolute fluke plus says good for fluke and whitespot , then in few weeks il do water changes and salt again with accriflavrin covers going on this weekend and heater will be on very soon to only 12⁰ tho far to expensive
great information, people use salt in so many ways.
How long can u leave salt in before starting water changes?