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fishybiz
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Posts: 146
From:canada
Registered: Nov 2003

posted 02-13-2004 01:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fishybiz     Edit/Delete Message
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!

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t_chelle16
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Posts: 501
From:Missouri
Registered: Feb 2004

posted 02-13-2004 01:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for t_chelle16     Edit/Delete Message
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

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