RE: [GSAS-Member] up-date : crawdad died

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

This isn't salt. It has iodine, and other vitamins
it's for all cichlids. Since I had read that the
crawdads need iodine, I figured I could use this, and
the vitamins shouldn't hurt it. We'll find out.....

Trish
--- Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net> wrote:

> I added African cichlid salts to a tank with some
> Amano shrimp. Later on
> that day, they all died. It was strange because it
> look as if their coloring
> changed like they had been boiled. 
> 
> Susan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf
> Of Trish
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 7:45 PM
> To: Fish List
> Subject: [GSAS-Member] up-date : crawdad died
> 
> Well as I suspected the crawdad died....I just
> cleaned
> the tank, and took out what was left of the one, for
> the water was looking pretty cloudy. I also added
> some
> Cichlid Vital. Not sure if it is needed, but don't
> think it can hurt either.
> 
> So we'll see how it goes now with this one. The one
> which died was the one which was had blue on it. The
> other is more of a redish brown. So am going to
> start
> feeding it some carrots to help with coloration.
> Have
> read that they enjoy this, and other vegetable
> matter.....
> 
> I was amazed at how soft the shell was on the one
> which had died, so I see how vuneralable they would
> be
> in the wild, while moulting. 
> 
> I noticed of what shell was left, {the back and
> tail}
> for the other one had eaten most of the rest, am
> thinking it had shed all it's shell, but then the
> other had attacked it, and then killed it.  Then in
> turn munched away..... 
> 
> So now I know for if we get another, I will have to
> have better hiding places for them. I do have 2
> caves,
> and also some river rock for them, but obvisiouly it
> wasn't enough. Need to have caves, which they can
> actually retreat completely, into.
> 
> Trish
> 
> 
> 
> 
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