Arag-Alive Reef Sand & Malawi Cichlids?

Thanks for enlightening me n cichlids. All I have read wa they
prefered acidic side.........I tried to use some live rock in a fW
setup0 one itme and it took forever to "boil" the lr free of
organisims so parameters would be low enough to put fish in tank and
never got it close......Also did the same with LS with results just
like the rock.......what method of cycling your marine live rock and
sand did you use. i have some nice lr I would like to place in a FW
setup, thats just air dry and in the sun since I have no room in any
of my sal****er tanks for it now.



On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:58:05 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

===~Roy wrote:
===
=== Wrong stuff......Arag Alive is meant for a alk type tank, and IIRC
=== don;t ciclids prefer acidic range? All the benefical bacteria will die
=== in freshwater, and make cycling the tank a long time affair. It would
=== also probably buffer your water to much to get correct ph
=== levels.......
===
=== On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:08:51 GMT, "Kay-Bee"
=== wrote:
===
===
======Recently ordered several 20lbs bags of Eco-Complete African Cichlid
======Substrate (the sand variety) ...I'll be setting up a 125-gallon tank in the
======near future for Yellow Lab, Acei and Socolofi.
======
======Well, they seemingly sent me CaribSea's Indo-Pacific black Arag-Alive
======aragonite reef sand ("with natural and selected marine bacteria") by mistake
======(not sure if it was an intentional substitute as it's sold at practically
======twice the price of the Eco-complete in their catalog).
======
======This is my first time using sand as a substrate. Any idea if this partiular
======marine sand (apparently intended for marine and reef aquariums and packed in
======water) will be compatible with Malawi lake cichlids (specifically for the
======aforementioned species)?
======
======kaybee
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===Hi Roy,
===
===FYI Malawi cichlids prefer hard, alkaline water - main reason I went for
===these rather than SA cichlids. My Malawi tank has Ocean Rock along with
===a substrate that is a mix of coral sand and tropical marine sand - pH is
===around 8 - haven't got round to measuring the hardness yet. Tank has
===been up and running 9 months and is overrun with baby Mbunas :-)
===
===Gill


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