Re: [GSAS-Member] May offerings-Shrimp

[Shamus Young <machismo@eskimo.com>]

Shango

cuttlebone is cuttlefish bone, a hard internal structure found in
cuttlefish.  It's a buoancy chamber in those creatures.

It's mainly made up of calcium carbonate, so as it slowly dissolves, it
keeps up your CaCO3 levels.  It's a good low tech low work way to give
shrimp (or your trumpet snails) calcium for their hard parts.  You can
also just buy CaCO3, add it, and monitor your water hardness.  More of a
pain in the butt, but you have more control.

Cuttlefish bone is used as a chew toy / mineral supplement for birds and
turtles, so it's available at pet shops/ Drs. Foster & Smith and they're
cheap.

Shamus

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Shango Los wrote:

> What is this cuttlebone and do I need some?
>
>
> On 4/22/09 4:28 PM, "florin cracut" <florincracut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have a 10 gal tank full of RCS, I'll bring some at the meeting. I keep the
> > shrimps with my CPDs in a tank full of moss,riccia, anubias. I use well
> > water(164th ST Lynnwood), GH=4,KH=4 and I add cuttlebone, epsom salt, 
> > Seachem
> > Flourish and Excel, weekly water changes. I feed them sinking waffers,
> > spirulina pellets, flakes, but they enjoy microworms(CPDs food), dead fish 
> > or
> > hair alge(ocasionally I drop in their tank some plants or sponge filters 
> > with
> > algae for cleaning purposes). I have RCS since last november and they breed
> > like crazy. I think they enjoy my CPDs eggs because since the RCS population
> > increased I didn't see any CPD frys.
> > Hope this will help,I'll bring some more RCS at the meeting.
> > Daniel
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