Aquarium salt for a freshwater planted aquarium
I've heard some people say to add some salt to a freshwater aquarium to help keeping my fish healthy. Is there any basis for this claim?
Some background on my tank:
20 gallon long freshwater planted aquarium with gravel substrate, a few rocks, a large piece of wood and an Emperor 400 for filtration. My fish include 8 platies (they reproduced), 1 balloon molly (two died, which is sad), 8 tetras, a lot of cherry shrimps, 3 amano shrimps, 4 African dwarf frogs and a few dwarf crayfish. I'm thinking of adding a vampire crab and a small dry zone for it.
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I don't have any links, however I do have quite a few year's of experience keeping freshwater aquariums. When I first started I didn't know about the salt. And I noticed on odd occasions whenever I introduced new fish, or during season changes (especially spring) my fish would catch ich. And if you had it, you would know how annoying it is. However afterwards I decided to start adding one teaspoon of salt for every three gallons. And since then not a single case of ich outbreak occurred. It might be either salt that kept fish healthy enough to not get ich, or that I had more experience. I don't know, but just thought I would leave my two cents with you.
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