API Pond Salt
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Help keep your pond fish happy and healthy with API’s Pond salt. Made from evaporated sea water, this all-natural salt helps provide your finned friends with essential electrolytes while promoting gill health and disease recovery. It can also help protect against nitrates and reduce stress. This salt should only be added to reduce stress during new aquarium setup and water changes or to promote disease recovery when solving specific fish health issues.
Key Benefits- Made from all-natural evaporated sea water for freshwater aquariums.
- Helps provide fish with essential electrolytes.
- This salt can be used to help protect against nitrite toxicity.
- Promotes recovery from diseases to help increase fish health and reduce stress.
- Can be used with water conditioners and is suitable for dip treatments.
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Item Number104368
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Aquarium TypePond
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Fish TypeKoi & Pond Fish
Ponds with Plants: Add 1-1/4 cups of API POND POND SALT for each 100 US gallons of pond water.
Ponds without Plants: Add 2-1/2 cups of API POND POND SALT for each 100 gallons of pond water.
Disease Treatment: Short-term salt baths are beneficial to kill external parasites and treat fungal infections. In a plastic container, dissolve 2-1/2 cups of API POND POND SALT in 10 US gallons of pond water. Do not use tap water. Carefully place infected fish in the salt bath for 5 to 10 minutes, Do not leave fish in the salt bath for more than 10 minutes. Return the fish to the pond. Treatment may be repeated after 24 hours.
Once added to the pond, API POND POND SALT does not evaporate and is not filtered out. So, add additional API POND POND SALT with each water change. The addition of API POND POND SALT is not recommended when topping off due to evaporation.
Is API POND SALT safe for freshwater tanks? Is it just salt (no iodine)?
API POND SALT is specifically designed for pond environments. For freshwater aquariums, use API FRESHWATER MASTER TEST KIT.
Solutions for a Healthier Pond
If you want your pond to thrive, you can trust API to deliver everything you need—not just to get started, but to keep your fish healthy and active year-round. With reliable water test kits, fish medications and water conditioners, they make it much easier to maintain your fish pond so you can enjoy the tranquil ambiance it brings to your backyard landscape.
First-Rate Water Treatments
Maintaining the perfect pond in your outdoor oasis is a much easier task with API's water conditioners and algaecides. They've taken out the guesswork with proven treatments that keep everything in perfect balance. Pond Stress Coat protects your beautiful Koi and Goldfish, while Pond Algaefix helps control algae growth. With the help of Pond ACCU-Clear and Chlorine & Heavy Metal Neutralizer, the water will stay clear and safe for your fish.
Keeping the Balance
Regular water testing will keep your pond serene and picturesque, with fish that are active and lively. The Pond Master Test Kit measures the most important levels, including pH, ammonia, nitrite and phosphates. It's good for routine pond care and for diagnosing and solving any water quality issues. For fast and easy testing without having to use a separate test vial, try the 5-in-1 Pond Test Strips that come with precise color-matching charts.
Problem-Solving Medications
The fish in your pond can get sick, too, and if they do, you'll want to be ready to fix the problem as soon as you can. Pond Melafix is an all-natural, fast-acting remedy that works rapidly to treat bacterial infections, and it's safe for snails, plants and other pond dwellers. To keep your fish swimming strong, add Pond Salt to improve gill function, replenish electrolytes and reduce stress.
About API
Through extensive and continuous research and development, API created quality products for all levels of fishkeeping. As people who are passionate about fish care, they understand the rewards of keeping up a successful pond or aquarium. With easy-to-read guides and premium treatments, foods, filters and testing equipment, API helps aquarists establish and maintain an environment where fish can flourish.
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Helps keep a healthy pond
By AdoptMoreFriends on Aug 9, 2020
When I first opened my fish pond I had problems with algae and sometimes disease. Since using this with every water change (3/4 water removal) I have had clear water and healthy fish. I have a pump, but only need to change the filter every other month or so. We have a canopy over the pond to keep the temperature from getting too hot and that, combined with the salt has cut down greatly on algae.
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API pond salt
By Jeff on Mar 25, 2020
We use this in our pond to keep our koi happy and healthy.
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Pond Salt for Conditioning
By bhaskardancer on Apr 28, 2019
This product is indispensable for maintaining an healthy pond. We have a 400 gallon pond with cascades in an interior atrium garden that has been stocked with fishes and running since 2000. With each water change, besides a dechlorinator, we add the pond salt and also occasionally add some pond salt to keep the fishes healthy. Chewey DID pack three large and heavy jars without any packing material, loose in a box that was way too large for the contents, but by a miracle, it arrived with them banging around but undamaged.
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Pond Salt for pond
By k9ma on Oct 23, 2019
Great salt for koi pond, helps with protective slim coat on fish.
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Highly recommend
By Sherri on Apr 26, 2019 Top 1000 Contributor
I have used this in my pond for about 8 years. We have 8 goldfish in our outdoor pond and they love it. Its like a spa to them. Never have i lost a fish nor have any of them had parasites, ick, or bacterial infections. I credit this product to that. Just remember the salt is not filtered out so dont overdose. Every time i do a partial water change i add more or if we have a heavy rainfall here in Ohio, the pond will overflow so ill add more then.
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Spa bath for your fish
By Greenie on Aug 2, 2018
I always add pond salt after a water exchange in my pond. The koi love it. It aids in healthy gill function. Even fresh water fish need a little salt in their life.
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Can't beat API products
By BobbieD on Jul 2, 2018
Pond salt, barley straw and filtration in the proper balance will keep your pond gin clear. Always use API and finding it at Chewy.com makes it even better.
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pond salt defective carton
By jerri on Feb 9, 2018
My pond salt container was open inside a sealed box. Salt was all over inside box
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Excellent preventative care for your fish
By mamafirebird on Aug 24, 2017 Top 100 Contributor
Pond/aquarium salt can be a very beneficial addition to your aquatic environments. Tap water normally removes almost all minerals; adding some of those minerals back to the water will be beneficial for gill function and preventative care. Plus, many fish diseases can be treated by increasing the salt content of the water, in addition to temperature changes or additional treatments. Just be sure to monitor the amount of salt in your tank, with a test kit - and only add salt when replacing a large quantity of water. Tanks with live plants must use lower concentrations (or the plants will die). Pond/aquarium salt is NOT the same as edible table salt - it's normally evaporated from sea water Pond/aquarium salt can be a very beneficial addition to your aquatic environments. Tap water normally removes almost all minerals; adding some of those minerals back to the water will be beneficial for gill function and preventative care. Plus, many fish diseases can be treated by increasing the salt content of the water, in addition to temperature changes or additional treatments. Just be sure to monitor the amount of salt in your tank, with a test kit - and only add salt when replacing a large quantity of water. Tanks with live plants must use lower concentrations (or the plants will die). Pond/aquarium salt is NOT the same as edible table salt - it's normally evaporated from sea water. Good to keep on hand for water changes, and for treating sick fish, too. … more
