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When preparing a saltwater aquarium, should I use sea salt from the grocery store or aquarium sea salt?

Nov 11, 2008 by Desmond S | Posted in Fish

I have sea salt purchased from the grocery store and am preparing a saltwater aquarium. Should I purchase specialized sea salt or is the grocery-store sea salt fine for the fish?

No you cannot use sea salt purchased in the grocery store. You need ones like the synthetic instant ocean or real sea salt like red sea salt.

You need specific salt not grocery store salt. Ocean salt fore fish is designed for fish not to season them for human consumption.

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Dan Lewer, a veterinarian at Oregon Coast Aquarium, works on a Green sea turtle that was found on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington in November. The turtle has a fractured front right flipper but no lung damage. The Green sea turtle and an Olive Ridley turtle that was also found stranded in November could be transferred to SeaWorld in San Diego later this month. Good turtle news washed up from the Oregon Coast.

The Oregon Coast Aquarium said that two stranded sea turtles that were recovered on two different beaches in November are making slow but steady progress.

"We are quite excited," said Jim Burke,  head of animal husbandry at the aquarium. "They're really starting to stabilize and do fairly well. Their activity levels have increased. They're eating a lot better. They're getting quite a bit stronger."

He said the Olive Ridley  sea turtle found on Agate Beach in Newport has been taken off fluids, and an X-ray of the green sea turtle that turned up on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington showed no lung problems.

But the green sea turtle does have a compound fracture in its front right flipper, and the Olive Ridley turtle has buoyancy problems that keep it on or near the surface.

Both turtles are female and more than 5 to 10 years old, Burke said.

"They're not juveniles," he said, "They're not old timers either." Sea turtles can live to be 100, he said.

The turtles are native to warm Pacific waters and rarely show up on the Pacific Northwest coast. Burke suspects they got caught in offshore pockets of warm water, or gyres, that carried them north.

Both turtles were hypothermic when they were found and had not eaten for some time. Both species are on the federal endangered species list.

Although it is too early to tell whether they suffered any permanent damage, Burke is cautiously optimistic that they will fully recover.

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