Fresh vs. brackish

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  • Vickie Hays
    October 3, 2000 at 11:40 pm #13486

    Hi group, We have 8 votes in our poll. Have you voted yet? So far the majority are voting for fresh water. Please vote. Vickie

    JP
    October 4, 2000 at 12:31 am #13487

    I wont have my diamond back untill the end of oct, so i cant realy vote yet .. im just counting.

    Chun-Ming Chew
    October 4, 2000 at 1:32 am #13488

    JP, Please fill us in when you get it. We’d love to know what subspecies, etc.. Candace has a journal going for Tex: http://homepages.go.com/~candycanez/index.html Chun

    modelgrafx@aol.com
    October 4, 2000 at 3:37 am #13489

    JP That’s okay. Vickie

    howarsc@yahoo.com
    October 4, 2000 at 9:17 am #13492

    As with so many things I cannot vote eiter way. I have studied populations of macrospilota and find them in 25-30ppt sodium chloride NaCl. My captives are in, what I would call, very hard fresh water. African cichlids thrive in myy tanks. NaCl seems to help keep pathogens depressed with dbt as it does with fresh water fish. Alkaline water also keeps several types of fungus at bay. A 30ppt salt bath helps as well. My tanks have an added Na, Mg, Ca, Cl, SO4, and CO3 salts. Nothing is ever simple in biological water chemistry and this is just extremely basic to get by with happy and healthy DBT for my group. Scott — In diamondbackterrapins@egroups.com, “Vickie Hays”

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