API Freshwater Aquarium Salt
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About This Item
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- Made from all-natural evaporated sea water for freshwater aquariums.
- Helps provide fish with essential electrolytes.
- Only add to reduce stress during new aquarium setup and water changes or to promote disease recovery when solving specific health issues in fish.
- Promotes recovery from diseases to help increase fish health and reduce stress.
- The salt formula helps keep your freshwater fish healthy.
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Instructions
FAQ
About API Water Conditioners
It’s Smart To Be Proactive!
The best way to keep your aquarium clean is to maintain good water quality. This will help keep your fish strong and vibrant and prevent disease. Water conditioners and test kits from API can help you keep your aquarium water safe and healthy.
How Do I Maintain a Healthy Environment?
It is important to test your aquarium water weekly to ensure it stays healthy for your fish. In addition, a bi-weekly partial water change of no more than 25% will help reduce toxic buildup, remove debris the filter missed, and replenish the oxygen available to your fish.
Feed Twice Daily and Test Water Weekly
Feed your fish twice a day, check their water temperature, and observe them to make sure they are active. You should also test water quality weekly for optimal safety. For fish to thrive, their water must closely match that of their natural environment—poor water quality can cause stress, illness and even fish loss. The 6 important parameters for healthy aquarium water are ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH and water hardness (GH & KH). All of these can vary over time and are invisible to the eye.
Change Water and Restore the Ecosystem
In a closed aquarium environment, there are no natural rivers or streams to carry away debris and other waste materials. That is why you should replace 25% of your aquarium water every two weeks, making sure to add water conditioner to your tap water to make it safe for your fish. You should also change your filter media and clean your gravel monthly. Adding beneficial nitrifying bacteria with API Quick Start when you do will help restore your aquarium’s fragile ecosystem and avoid disruption.
What Do API Products Do and When Do I Use Them?
API Test Kits
Use test kits weekly to monitor water quality parameters, which can vary over time and impact the health of your fish.
API Stress Zyme
Using this every week will help keep your aquarium clean and your gravel and ornaments sludge-free.
API Algaefix
Use weekly to control algae growth and keep aquarium glass, ornaments and plants clean.
API Stress Coat
Use every 2 weeks during water changes to make tap water safe, and when adding fish, or when fish are injured.
About API
The team at API has a passion for fish and understands the rewards and relaxation fishkeeping can bring. For almost 60 years, they have developed premium products with a focus on proven and effective results. API offers a range of testing kits, water conditioners and nutritionally superior fish foods. They are dedicated to making a better underwater world for the benefit of fish and those who keep them.
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59 Customer Reviews
Essential item for my aquarium water
This is an item that I use routinely in my tropical fish aquarium. Aquarium salt promotes healing should a fish sustain an injury.
fresh water aquarium salt
This is the Same brand I always use just lower cost
aquarium salt
It was open and all over the box when I opened it.
Great value
Great value and great item. My fish are doing excellent.
Good Stuff
I use this for all my aquariums both for regular maintenance and quarantine. It's a nice size for the price and lasts a while.
API aquarium salt
My son introduced me to the API aquarium salt several years ago great add on to my aquarium for the health of my fish it can also be used for sick fish all so.I do recommend the product for a healthy aquarium.
Perfect for keeping fish healthy
Make sure to follow instructions, don't screw over your shrimp or snails with too much salt. This salt is really good though, helps tears in fins heal quickly. The largest batch is the best batch to get you'll be using it a lot in water changes.
Good product
Good product. I will buy again. Better deal on Chewy than the store :)
Great for Fish
No matter if your trying to treat Ich or just trying to make sure your fish are well. This is a great product My fish Love this stuff, and its easy to use
A Must Have for Aquariums!
This is a must have for any fish parent…it helps with all kinds of aquatic things and is great to have on hand.