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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

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

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?

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

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

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