i need to take my live rock out of my aquarium and i dont have any salt can i use household sea salt
2006-10-27 17:52:19 · 11 answers · asked by carrieres102584 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Purchase your salt from a reliable pet store. Talk to a sales person and they should be able to immediately tell and sale what you need. If they hem haw around go somewhere else. Some stores really care; they want your continued business. You will quickly know the good from the bad stores. Consider subscribing to magazines or better buy books on fish culture. "INVEST IN EDUCATION " about your set up. You will be investing more money on saltwater tank supplies. And those beautiful fish you layed out big bucks for might not live very long. Start out with some economical colorful fish. Cycle your tank before adding fish/ inverts/ etc. Purchase the lights that produce the right spectrum for your set-up.
2006-10-27 19:25:45 · answer #1 · answered by redbass 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO. It is not likely to be clean enough for use in an aquarium. Remember that you are maintaining a very small environment that is overcrowded nmo matter how many fish you have in there or the size of the tank. This makes your tank very sensitive to chemical changes. You may also not get a the same consistent formula as you do with aquarium sea salt. There are natural salts (Red Sea makes one) which are harvested from the ocean, but they put alot of effort into it.
2006-10-28 06:49:00 · answer #2 · answered by geohauss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you have some kind of emergency I would strongly recommend delaying your live rock transfer until you have the proper materials and equipment necessary to do the job right. Trying the quick fix with household sea salt might turn out to be a disaster in the making.
Any sudden change in water chemistry is bound to have ill effects on your fish as well as on the inverts that inhabit your live rock. It's best to stick with what your animals are acclimated to. Your aquarium and everything in it will be healthier for your efforts.
If you live in the US you can find "Instant Ocean" products at practically any Wal-Mart, and in the majority of reputable aquarium and fish stores. I only mention this because of the products I have used over the past 15 years, the "Instant Ocean" products have been the most consistant and easiest to use.
Hope this helps. Good Luck, and may God Bless!!
2006-10-27 21:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by south_texas_herper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Table salt cannot be used as a substitute for sea salt. This not because it is toxic to the fish, but rather because it is just pure sodium chloride, a chemical we put on our food to enhance taste.
Sea salt, on the other hand, is meant to mimic the water chemistry of the oceans. Therefore, it contains many different kinds of salts (such as those made from potassium and calcium) instead of just sodium chloride. It also contains trace amounts of minerals and other compounds that are necessary or beneficial to marine life.
You should go to the store tomorrow and get some aquarium salt as soon as you can if you want to move your live rock out of the tank. You will also need to have a filtered tank set up to keep the rock in, as they cannot live in just a bucket or container of saltwater. In addition to the fauna found on the live rock, there are also several species of beneficial algae that will need a fair amount of light in order to survive.
Hope that helps.
2006-10-27 19:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by give_me_more_drugs675 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The answer is no! Home used salt have chemicals that may be harmful for inverts. Also, seasalt mix was made to re-create seawater. In my experience, you are sure how many box of sea salt mix to use to create the specific salinity (Salinity is a measurement of how much salt is dissolved in the water) of the water in the tank, unlike ordinary home use salt. (with a help of a hydrometer of course.)
Table salt is nearly pure (95% or greater) sodium chloride.It also have iodine, potassium iodide, anticaking agents used are tricalcium phosphate, calcium or magnesium carbonates, fatty acid salts (acid salts), magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, sodium alumino-silicate, and alumino-calcium silicate. Sea salt is more than just sodium chloride, it also contains calcium carbonate and bicarbonate, various metal salts, and small amounts of phosphates, sulphates and nitrates.
Now phosphate cause algae bloom on reef tanks, sea salt mix have enough measurement of phosphate on it to be useful in a salt tank compare to an ordinary table salt.
2006-10-27 23:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by John the Pinoy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No! I have salt water fish and i was in your situation not to long ago and i called the pet shop and asked and they said that it would kill the fish, because the fish are not used to just straight salt like that, but you can go to wal*mart and get aquarium salt for a very low price!
2006-10-27 18:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by devilchild1939 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I would not till I asked a expert.
Go ask at your local Fish store.
2006-10-27 18:00:24 · answer #7 · answered by Psycmixer 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Unless you want to kill your fish.
2006-10-28 05:31:51 · answer #8 · answered by Grace H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-27 17:53:29 · answer #9 · answered by brandon_ledesma 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Think so.
2006-10-27 18:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by aries 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋