Aquarium Salt?

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bacrosslin
 
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Aquarium Salt?

by bacrosslin

I just changed out my 55gal. Cichlids tank gravel for sand yesterday, which included a 100% water change. With a change this drastic do i need to add any aquarium salt?
I think that I should but I can not find anyhwere that states an ammount for Cichlids.
Any ideas?


yasherkoach
 
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by yasherkoach

aquarium salt either helps with stress or/and illness.

I add aquarium (2 tablespoons to a 55 gal) every week (each MOnday). Never hurts. Just be careful the salt is placed in an area that does not touch fish or invertebrates for it will burn them.

2 Tablespoon weekly regardless of illness or stress never hurts unless your fish cannot handle it (what fish do you ave outside of the above-mentioned).

hope this helps


doomydarkdoom
 
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by doomydarkdoom

Just be careful, as salt does not evaporate, so you can easily end up with too much salt in a tank. I usually add a pinch to each bucket of water I'm putting in my tank when I do water-changes, and it works great.

You just have to find your own balance, and what your tank needs.


bacrosslin
 
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by bacrosslin

I have 2 tanks but the Q is just for my Cichlids. I went by the instructions and did 1 teaspoon per 5 gal. of water. I do a 25-30% water change everyweek plus a 50% monthly. I norm put a teaspoon in weekly per water change.


doomydarkdoom
 
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by doomydarkdoom

Woah. That seems like a lot of salt to me, but if it works, it works.


jweb1369
 
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by jweb1369

What kind of sand is it?


jweb1369
 
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by jweb1369

salt doesn't evaporate, but it does form crystals on the sides of the tank. With saltwater, those can be deadly if allowed to fall back into the tank.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

this is what i put in my tang tanks...

For every 5 US Gallons of water, add 1-tablespoon Epsom salt, 1-tablespoon baking soda, and 1-teaspoon marine salt.

but that's to raise the PH and GH/KH to where i want it... and my tap water PH is 7.8...

on cichlid-forum they say to put...

For every 5 US Gallons of water, add 1-tablespoon Epsom salt, 1-teaspoon baking soda, and 1-teaspoon marine salt.

kind of the same... anyways... those are the only salts i put in any african cichlid tank... that's actually the recipe for those expensive cichlid rift lake salts...


a1k8t31524
 
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by a1k8t31524

three teaspoons in a tablespoon.....


bacrosslin
 
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by bacrosslin

i bought some white pool filtration sand from home depot. Five bucks for a 50lb bag, it is alot cleaner than regular play sand but it still requires alot of rinsing to get clean

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