Re: [GSAS-Member] Rift Lake Buffer Recipe

["Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>]

I had to do some quick siphoning from my existing hard water tanks and
dilute things down to get everyone situated without resorting to any
mixing.  Hopefully the provided recipe at around half strength will keep
them a bit for comfortable for tonight.

The best thing about the provided recipe is that now I have a Perfectly
Good Explanation to provide my wife as to why I *needed* to move that
ridiculously heavy unused bucket of marine salt (and bag of epsom salts,
ironically enough) 2600 miles from NY when we moved.  (even though I have
never had a functional marine tank running).

After all, I needed four whole teaspoons of the stuff tonight!  If that's
not worth hauling it coast-to-coast and storing it for half a decade, I
don't know what is!  (of course, it's also possible that I need
professional help...).

Cliff


> Considering the topic of tonight's presentation, I figured I'd send
> this out to whoever doesn't/hasn't kept Malawi/Tanganyika cichlids
> before or spends a lot more on buffers than they'd like.  Once again,
> cichlid-forum comes to the rescue with good reference material.
> Here's the link http://cichlid-forum.com/articles/buffer_recipe.php
>
> I suppose you could alter the recipe if you have plenty of GH in your
> water but want to raise your KH or viseversa: "For every 5 US Gallons
> of water, add 1-tablespoon Epsom salt, 1-teaspoon baking soda, and 1-
> teaspoon marine salt."
>
> If anyone needs some marine salt, I have a 5 gallon bucket that's
> pretty much full.  You're welcome to come by and pick some up, or we
> could meet sometime, I go to school at the UW in the morning, work in
> LFP in the afternoon and live in MLT.
>
> If you have any questions about the needs or dietary requirements of
> any fish you picked up today, or you want to do some research for good
> potential tankmates, check out the profiles section of the site, or
> surf the forum.  There's some EXCELLENT information there. :)
>
> -Laurel
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