chemicals to use for african cichlids

[yhbae]

Perhaps I should get some crushed coral, put in a bag and throw it into my filter? That should help maintain GH and KH, no?

 

[gixer]

certainly will.. or use it as substrate

or mix some in your sand..

 

[yhbae]

certainly will.. or use it as substrate

or mix some in your sand..

I would have thought you would need more of them if you want to keep them as substrates (they are not cheap around here), hence I was thinking of putting them into the filter. I guess I'll try it in the filter first and see what kind of results I get...

Thanks!

 

[yhbae]

6 days have gone by and I measured the parameters again. It is identical to the numbers I got just after water change 6 days ago!

I guess my KH doesn't get used up all that quickly? I suppose this means I can continue what I'm doing and expect that the fishes can have a stable water?

 

[thecichlidaddict]

If it ain't broke... just keep an eye on things, sounds like things are good.

 

[yhbae]

If it ain't broke... just keep an eye on things, sounds like things are good.

Will do... Thanks for the suggestions!

 

[jtyce]

Make there water as close to the conditions to the lake they come from as possible. This is not absolutely critical becasue these fish will survive in varying water conditions, and have moist likely been breed and raised in water consitions that differ from there natural habitat. DOn't just go ut and buy buffer for your cichlids lake. First check your local water. My water comes out of the tap at PH 8.4, so there is no reason for me to buffer the water at 8.2. I have mostly lake Malawi cichlids and a couple of Frontosa. I keep my water at a hardness of about 18 dgH or 322 ppm (3 tsp Epson Salt per 10 gal) and I add (1 tsp per gallon of aquarium salt). I keep my temp. at 78 degrees. I do a 1/3 water change every week. My fish are growing like crazy coloring up beautifuly and are very healthy. I seldom lose a fish.