Brilliant video for relative new comers to the hobby. Clear and rational, unlike much of the other advice regarding salt use. Many thanks. It all makes sense when you explain it.
Well just another very useful insight to salt in the pond, you are my go to Daz for any learning of keeping koi, thank you for the video, keep well and keep safe. 👌
Cheers mate, I'm ok thank you, getting some normality back now. Booked a week away on my own for the end of May so looking forward to that. Not been on holiday on my own before so should be something different
Very informative video, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I used to have a reef tank and have a large unused bucket of Red Sea Coral Pro salt, could this salt be used in my pond? Thanks.
Great video Daz, cheers. I’m still struggling with high nitrites (40-70% water changes every 4 days or so), due to new pond syndrome. I have a bakki shower on order (due in a week or so), I’m hoping this will help. I read online that salt can help protect koi from the bad effects of nitrite and also reduce the stress. So I have raised the salt level to 0.3%, as a temporary solution, until my bakki is up and running (still doing water changes, but not as many). Is this true? As I noticed you didn’t mention it in your video.
Hi Joe, sorry for the delay, hopefully you have fixed your issue by now. No, salt wont protect them from the effects of high nitrite as a long term addition at low level. Its more of an emergency measure to quickly reduce a very high nitrite level. I wouldn't recommend adding salt to help with a new pond as it has many other negative effects on the maturation process. With nitrite it is simply a matter of time and patience. It takes much longer to colonise nitrite bacteria than ammonia bacteria. If you haven't already, have a watch of my video on starting up a new pond. There will be useful info in there that will make life easier for you 👍👍
Hi Hi, so sorry for not replying to you, I've had an issue with comments and I've missed loads of them 😒 The Cotswold Koi meter is the only one I've owned so I have nothing to compare it to but its always worked well 👍
Hi there, If you treat with salt you need to get it out afterwards so you would need to change your water. If you don't do water changes I would avoid salt. Do you have a specific ailment that you need to treat?
Absolutely peed off had pond running great advised I shouldn't do this that etc , now back to high nitrates 🤬🤬🤬 koi keeping is not a pleasure anymore 😭
