Breeding Amano - water conditions?

[MAck]

Is it possible to breed the amano’s larvae in water with uniodized salt from grocery store?
Is it really important to use aquaristic sea salt?
Thanks
MAck

[Polypterus]

Hello !
Yes, it's a lot of work, but I think it's a good job to breed Amanos.
Here is a great link : http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm

[MAck]

I have already read this article. There is written only that

“To make the salt water, I would suggest using either filtered natural seawater, or a quality commercial salt mix intended for coral reef aquaria, e.g. Instant Ocean, which should be aerated vigorously prior to use.”

I don’t have access to natural seawater
The author didn’t write anything about the iodized salt – will that do?

[brbarkey]

I would use Instant ocean. I was successful using instant ocean, I havent tried table salt. Instant ocean has more ingredients than NaCl, which I think is benificial. To be successful it is neccesary to match the environment as close as possible...instant ocean or any other aquarium salt will work.

ben

[NFR-22467-A]

Never use table salt to produce brackish or marine water, ever. It's not the same type of salt.

[51Cornell]

Plus it usually has some anti-clumping stuff added to it.