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Title: Using sea salt
Post by: on September 20, 2006, 10:54:28 AM

i add a bit of salt to my tanganykian tank and was wondering i have run out of natural lake salt, can i use marine salt. i have 10kg of it after closeing a marine tank and its going to waste.
has anyone used it b4 and will Xenotilapia spiluptris mind 1.5 g/L
thanks for any help matt

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Post by: GTR73 on September 20, 2006, 12:59:32 PM

Is it primarily rock salt you have? (ie. NaCl - Sodium Chloride)
If so, any of the Rift Lakes have a certain amount of Sodium Chloride in the water chemistry so should be no problem adding it to your Tang tank.

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Post by: here fishie fishie on September 20, 2006, 10:29:13 PM

Yep Marine Salt will be fine.

Heres something you may like to read.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/buffer_recipe.php

Frenchy :D

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Post by: on September 21, 2006, 08:55:35 AM

thanks heaps that has helped alot. looks like im going shopping today for some stuff at the grocers.
matt

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Post by: GTR73 on September 21, 2006, 10:05:03 AM

Pool shops are also cheap for Sea Salt (thanks for that one Talia). :)

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