My Rescued Oscar

[freshmike]

You tell 'em Aqua!!!!!

 

[Alien Anna]

Ha! That CAE doesn't care about a bit of salt. There's about a tsp per gallon in there.

His poop looked errr I hesitate to say my fish had good lookin' poop, but it looked as good as oscar poop could look.

(please no lectures from anybody about salt with the CAE; my other CAE lived in a salty guppy tank for several years and he's just dandy)

CAEs are fine with salt and fine in rock hard water, such as that suitable for Malawi cichlids. They only have a bad rep because people buy them as little community fish with delicate tetras and angelfish and of course they aren't compatible. And also people get conned by the pseudonyms (golden sucking loach, lemon algae eater, Indian loach etc. ) If you have a CAE and know its a CAE and know its a large, aggressive, territorial fish and that's what you want, a CAE is just great.

 

[CFC]

CAEs are not catfish BTW, they are river loaches which are cyprinids so like AA says salt is not a problem.

 

[AquaNut]

CAEs are not catfish BTW, they are river loaches which are cyprinids so like AA says salt is not a problem.

I know.

I think smb might just have forgotten what was dwelling in the bottom of Chester's tank. Either way, wouldn't matter to me... as I've said before on this forum, and I'll say until the day I no longer return, I salt all of my tanks and have yet to see one nano-second of unhappy behaviour from any of my 'unsaltable' fish. I'm not trying to start an argument at all, but I've got four year old, fat active cories who lived parts of their lives with mollies. As soon as I see any evidence of their unhappiness or lack of health, I'll stop salting my water. Until then, they seem appreciative of having NEVER been subjected to the stresses of chemical medications and the havoc they wreak on biological filter beds. (a very old fish guru told me to start salting my tanks years ago, and I've never looked back)