donna541
Aquarium Advice Activist
In the tank are yellow labs, blue frier and a red tailed shark, do any of u even add salt to ur cichlid tanks ?? If so how much ?? Thanks
Salt with cichlids
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donna541
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Or ever lol whoops
Breezyrae
Aquarium Advice Freak
I use the API salt once a week in my tanks. I use like a half handful. Depends on ur tank size.
mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
aquarium salt is completely unnecessary in any tank. it serves a purpose as a cure for some diseases, but IMO should not be used on a regular basis.
donna541
Aquarium Advice Activist
Conflicting options argh lol can anybody else comment ??
Breezyrae
Aquarium Advice Freak
mfdrookie516 said:
True. But my LFS guy told us to do it just to keep the sand bed cleaner. Idk that's just what I have followed since.
donna541
Aquarium Advice Activist
Or opinions lol head up backside tnite sorry
mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
Your LFS guy lied to you. Salt, in no way, is going to keep your tank clean. PWC's and gravel vacs will. There's absolutely no logic to that IMO. I've never once added salt to my tanks except for treating a disease. Never will either. There are actually many people who will say that using salt regularly has negative side effects on the fish... like kidney failure... and can cause some strains of ich to become immune to salt.
MonsterfishGuy
Aquarium Advice Freak
Boost you KH aroud 120 it will stock your ph beween 7.8 to 8.2
For their Pleasure and coloration boost GH between 120-180 or even more.
Their is multiple product to do it but that is your choice there!
For their Pleasure and coloration boost GH between 120-180 or even more.
Their is multiple product to do it but that is your choice there!
GuppyLover
Aquarium Advice FINatic
You want to add salt to make it brackish for your bbg, correct?
donna541
Aquarium Advice Activist
Yeah but there are a few cichlids and a red tail shark !!
mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
no, those fish won't be ok in a brackish tank.
MonsterfishGuy
Aquarium Advice Freak
Brackwarer!!!!
I said lots of KH and GH and i did not speak of salt use in saltwater to have a complete range of minerals!!
African lake are very hardwater as they come from ocean water stock there by techtonic plate movement that happen in old days!!
So water is very hard in malawi, kh around 100 and up and GH is always 120 and up to 180. Look any real good source and you wont disagree on that!
In taganika, its evem more on alkaline, it goes from 8.2 to 9 on PH and its from alkaline carbonate, bicarbonate, chlorate, phosphate and much more!! Gh up to 200!!
Its not saltwater but hardwater.
Brackwater is a mix of freshwater and saltwater in big river near the ocean. So it starts at 1.001 to 1.022 where saltwater start. Their is some brackwater that are more dense than saltwater called over-salt. Their some place with high sodium and potassium disolve in water but its a specific place in U-S.
So look closely to some analyse of malawi lake and you'll see! Its not a guess!
I said lots of KH and GH and i did not speak of salt use in saltwater to have a complete range of minerals!!
African lake are very hardwater as they come from ocean water stock there by techtonic plate movement that happen in old days!!
So water is very hard in malawi, kh around 100 and up and GH is always 120 and up to 180. Look any real good source and you wont disagree on that!
In taganika, its evem more on alkaline, it goes from 8.2 to 9 on PH and its from alkaline carbonate, bicarbonate, chlorate, phosphate and much more!! Gh up to 200!!
Its not saltwater but hardwater.
Brackwater is a mix of freshwater and saltwater in big river near the ocean. So it starts at 1.001 to 1.022 where saltwater start. Their is some brackwater that are more dense than saltwater called over-salt. Their some place with high sodium and potassium disolve in water but its a specific place in U-S.
So look closely to some analyse of malawi lake and you'll see! Its not a guess!
MonsterfishGuy
Aquarium Advice Freak
Where 1.001 and 1.022 are water density!!
Sorry
Sorry
donna541
Aquarium Advice Activist
Thanks ... I'm from northern Ireland water here is always ph of 7.6 and high ph 8.2 !! Anyone trust wikipedia ??? This is war they have to say... The bumblebee gobies from the genus Brachygobius are perhaps the most widely traded freshwater species, being small, colorful, and easy to care for. They need tropical, hard and alkaline freshwater or slightly brackish conditions to do well. Gobies are generally peaceful towards their tankmates, though territorial among themselves. Since most are small and few are predatory toward other fishes, they usually make good community fishes. Typically, the main problem with gobies is feeding them: with a few exceptions, the small species kept in aquariums prefer live on frozen foods rather than flake, and they are not very good at competing with active species such as cichlids. One says yeah the other says nay .... I'm frustrated big time !!!
MonsterfishGuy
Aquarium Advice Freak
Salty is more about calcium chloride and magnesium with all minerals!! In the tagayika lake and malawi its no more a complete salty water but for sure never put sodium chloride, it not GH and KH helping product its to prevent nitite poisonning in some case( specialy goldfish) and to help as medication!
Use alkaline booster and GH booster or a seachem cichlid salt!! No freshwater salt for cichlid except for medication if needed!
Use alkaline booster and GH booster or a seachem cichlid salt!! No freshwater salt for cichlid except for medication if needed!
BillD
Aquarium Advice Addict
I have to completely agree with mfdrookie516 on this one. The salt myth is an old one that has taken on a life of it's own.
Breezyrae
Aquarium Advice Freak
Thanx guys good to know. Gonna stop using salt then. 
