Salt water question

[thengbringa]

Hi

I just joined this group and its pretty nice. I havn't really had a chance to read much because I'm real tired and falling a sleep would feel really great. This forum seems to be an explosively exponential start with my fish tank hobby that I just started. I just finished setting up my 30 gal tank.

now I have a a few questions.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/myfishtank.net/httpdocs/forum/search.php on line 1011

this message comes up when I try searching the forums for my answer.

Why is that? Is it my computer? If not, will the search feature be refined to fix this? I'm running a freshly installed windows xp on a good enough computer with zone alarm security. I think I may have to restart But I will try that tomorrow but in the mean time I'll ask my question that I was wondering.

Okay is it really necessary to even worry about fresh water fish being in salt water? at petsmart the guy said all their fish tanks are salted water. And when i read the stickers of some fish it was obvious they were fresh water fish. Is this guy a joke or no?

 

[thengbringa]

I'm gonna double post in the salt water forum. Mods feel free to delete or request a delete and I'll be on it.

 

[JWright]

No need for a double post.

Stores like petsmart generally run with a small amount of salt in the water (though I suppose you could call it "salted") in order to prevent parasites like ich. The levels of salt we're talking about are very minimal. Nothing even coming close to approaching "saltwater" levels.

Saltwater would kill most freshwater fish within minutes.

There are some fish (like Mollies) that can be adapted to either fresh or salt water, but even that has to be a very gradual process.

Generally speaking, you can take most of what pet store employees tell you and throw it out the window (this obviously isn't universal, but in many cases, you're better safe than sorry).

As far as the search issue goes, we're still having some issues with a new server we moved to, and those issues should be addressed within the week.

~JW