aquarium salt

[Frankiethepuffer]

would i be ok with adding aquarium salt to my 10g which has a dwarf red lotus, anacharis, guppy grass and a pea puffer in it? Its for my new bumblebee goby that i put in there a few days ago. he's not eating and im wondering if adding salt will help out. tank in question:

[ccurtis]

Plants typically do not like salt. You will run the risk of your plants suffering. 

[Andy's Fish Den]

As pointed out above, plants typically don't like salt, and I have found out over the years that guppy grass seems to be pretty sensitive to salt. I would pull the goby out and put into a separate tank and treat him, make sure he's eating good.

[RyanR]

So, most recently I put 5 tbsp of salt in my QT.  I have a lot of floating water sprite.  I only needed to leave it in for about 4 days.  The water sprite definitely suffered, but it didn't die off.  In the past, I've put 3 tbsp in that same aquarium and didn't notice much of a difference.  I cannot speak about other plants.  That's my VERY limited experience with plants and salt.

My reasoning for keeping the water sprite in my QT is that I have a lot of water sprite and if a medication kills it, no big deal, I just put more in there and it grows fast.  I think the water sprite is therapeutic for the fish.