Water Gardening: Shutting down soon, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
I add salt to put a slime coat on my fish. The slime coat helps to protect them from parasites and the like. The salt levels are back down to zero once I do my water exchanges in the early spring. This way, the salt does not affect the plants and hopefully, if I need to do a salt bath for some reason during the ponding season, the fish are not immune to the effects.

I keep a couple of deicers in the pond to keep some of the water open for my gas exchanges to occur. The deicers have worked in all types of winters for me.

So, essentially the only time there is salt in my pond is when my plants and fish are dormant.