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fishybiz Member Posts: 146 |
posted 02-13-2004 01:12 PM
I was at the store today and I found aquarium salt. I bought some...dont really know why because I dont know what to do with it...lol I have a 55-gallon aquarium with 2 angel fish 4 Black tetras 2 red-tailed sharks 1 dwarf frog 1 green sevrum I betta 2 sword tails 1 spotted corey cat 1 algae eater 1 golden comet platy and 2 Dalmation mollys. The second question is that I was thinking about getting some cichlids and another aquarium...which ones can go with the chiclids and which ones do I get? Thanks everyone! IP: Logged |
t_chelle16 Member Posts: 501 |
posted 02-13-2004 01:35 PM
Aquarium salt can be used for brackish fish. Mollies are brackish, but they can also live in freswhater. Aquarium salt can also be used to heal cuts & scrapes, aid in oxygen exchange, and help cure ich, but there is no need to have it in the tank on a regular basis. And with your 55 gallon, I would advise against using it at all because frogs are very sensitive to salt and it can burn their skin. Also, if your algae eater is a pleco, they also tend to be salt sensitive. And as far as the cichlids go, that is a very broad family of fish so you need to be more specific about which ones you are planning on getting. South/Central American cichlids or African? And if you want African, which lake (Malawi, Victoria, Tanganyika)? And and particular species? What size tank are you planning on getting? Personally, I would recommend getting about a 75 gallon tank. You could move to severum to it since it may end up eating some of the smaller fish, and then you could add maybe a couple more severums. You might be able to move one of the red-tailed sharks too (there may be some aggression problems there, but I'm not sure). Red-tailed sharks tend to be same-species-aggressive so you might end up having problems with 2 of them in the same tank. Or if you don't move the red-tailed shark, you could put the pleco with severums. -Chelle [This message has been edited by t_chelle16 (edited 02-13-2004).] IP: Logged |
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