Re: [GSAS-Member] Bulk chemicals - help!

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

I used epsom salt on all my tanks.....I used to us "aquarium salt" before, 
then, went through a faze and used cichlid salt for my cichlids, then found 
epsom salt, and found it to be much cheaper. So now I used it on all tanks, and 
all my fish. I use it on my 2 goldfish tanks, which have goldies, dojos, and 
corys. Also on my Trophues tank, with bristle nose pleco, and also on my Mbuna 
tank, with clown loaches, and bristle nose plecos, without any problems on any 
of them. I have used salt with guppies, mollies, angels, gouramies....and 
anything else I have had in the past..just cant think of them right now....

I dont have to worry about ph, for its 8.2 out of the tap, so thats good for 
the cichlids =}, the only fish which have had somewhat of a problem it seems is 
the mollies....I never could keep them....not sure why...

Trish


--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Connie Carlson <nwconniec@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Connie Carlson <nwconniec@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Bulk chemicals - help!
> To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 11:02 AM
> Steev (or anyone else that has an opinion about this),
> 
> Can you say more??  Why is it good for the other fish? 
> What does it do, and in what quantities if we are adding it
> to tanks/fry containers?   Different for each species, i.e.
> koi vs. guppies??  I have heard/read in several places it
> is good to add salts to the livebearer tanks, but to date
> have only used the commercial marine salt mixes, and always
> feel like I am throwing the Hail-Mary pass when guessing how
> much to add.  I would love an alternative to that...
> 
> And any reason why didn't you list the
> ancistrus/plecos?  Salts NOT good for them?
> 
> Connie
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Steev Ward<mailto:steevward@yahoo.com> 
>   To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member
> chat<mailto:gsas-member@thekrib.com> 
>   Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:24 AM
>   Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Bulk chemicals - help!
> 
> 
>   It's mostly because carbonates raise the pH and
> sulfates don't. So sulfates aren't
>   really buffers. But people might have other reasons for
> avoiding sulfates. In marine
>   tanks I think people avoid adding any sulfates. Otherwise
> Magnesium sulfate, epsom
>   salts, is great stuff. I think it is good to add for LOTS
> of fish, not just cichlids.
>   Especially livebearers, goldfish, koi, rainbowfish,
> "sharks", corys, and barbs.
> 
> 
>   --- Clifford Miller
> <clifford@clevergeek.com<mailto:clifford@clevergeek.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>   > 
>   > While the topic was up I thought I'd get some
> opinions on the buffering
>   > agents I'm using.  Better to use Magnesium
> Carbonate than sulfate?
>   > 
>   > I currently use a mix of epsom salts, baking soda
> and marine salt in my
>   > cichlid tanks.  Nice and cheap, and easy to get at
> any drug store if not
>   > already on hand. The fish all seem to be doing well
> (I haven't lost any
>   > fish yet, including the 13 daffodils that I think
> were from Erik.)
>   > 
>   > Thanks,
>   > 
>   > Cliff
>   > 
> 
> 
> 
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