Re: Rift lake cichlids without lake salts

["r_gomes" <r_gomes@email.msn.com>]

 Tom,
The last time I cheched P. Auratus was not a dwarf cichlid but what the
heck...Don't worry about getting "Malawi Lake Salt"  I keep a community tank
of Rift lake cichlids from tankganyika and Malawi. For substrate I use
"Crushed Coral" the coarse type and add plain old aquarium salt to my tank
with every partial water change.  So far this has worked quite well and I
have had two species of fish pair up and breed in these conditions.
Good Luck
Rick

- -----Original Message-----
From: TOM PRICE <TPRICE@Civil.MsState.Edu>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Rift lake cichlids without lake salts


>
>Hello all,
>
>  I was in the pet store this afternoon, and in the "general cichlid"
>tank were three attractive dwarfs that I later identifed as a Golden
>Mbuna or a Nyasa Golden Cichlid.  The scientific name was either
>pseudotropheus auratus or melanochromis auratus, and the fish was
>variously identified as coming from Lake Nyasa or Lake Malawi.
>
>  These are the first Rift Lake fish I have kept, and I am not
>totally sure how to proceed.  I also don't have any Malawi lake salts
>(this fish store didn't have any).  I'm sure I'll be doing penance to
>the fish gods soon for such an impulse buy, but I figured I could do
>at least as well as the store tank, which was fresh water.
>
>  Does anyone know exactly what's in the Malawi lake salts?  For the
>time being, I'm going to run a back filter with some crushed coral in
>it to raise the pH and hardness.  Is this going to be adequate long
>term?  If not, how about short term?  I can mail-order the lake
>salts, but I can't get them here in small-town MS.  I'd appreciate
>any advice I can get regarding keeping these fish.
>
>I apologize in advance if this is off-topic for this list.  Please
>feel free to e-mail me off list if you feel this is the case.
>
>Tom
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