The Puffer Forum

Would this have any effect on my snails? would it benefit my puffers at all?

I put a low dose of Kent marine essential elements in my brakish tank with my puffers and in my brakish snail tank.

So that adds minerals back to the water? Sorry, I'm very green

What exactly does that product do? Do it affect my ph at all?

I have a cuttle-fish bone in my snail tank, so that they can get some extra calcium to strengthen their shells.

It does not affect your ph. But there are all kind of elements naturally in the wild that we just dont have in a aquarium. The essential elements puts all of that in there including calcium. Is your snail tank fw, brak, marine?

bigfatfish wrote:I have a cuttle-fish bone in my snail tank, so that they can get some extra calcium to strengthen their shells.

That's a neat idea, it won't go bad underwater right?

Miller535 wrote:It does not affect your ph. But there are all kind of elements naturally in the wild that we just dont have in a aquarium. The essential elements puts all of that in there including calcium. Is your snail tank fw, brak, marine?

My main tank is freshwater, I don't have a snail tank yet. I just ordered 10 ramshorns yesterday. I'm feeding 4 dwarf puffers and a sap. I'll be getting one more sap soon. Poor guy follows his reflection all the time. The snail tank will be fw as well tho.

For fw I am prertty sure that you can just buy liquid calcium and put that it.

Oh and if you are planning on breeding snails you have to have calcium in the water for them to develope their shells

Miller535 wrote:Oh and if you are planning on breeding snails you have to have calcium in the water for them to develope their shells

Mmm, the kent marine product you suggested sounds nice. Has calcium plus extra stuff that may not be present in my water..Um, question tho. The water at my house is hard..8.6 ppm. I use seachem acid buffer to bring in down to neutral. Would just plain conditioned tap water be fine?

I keep a cuttlefish bone in my snail tank and in my red crab/shrimp tank too. They are cheap enough and do the same job as some of the more expensive additives.

I think conditioned water would be fine. and liquid calcium or kent elements are both cheap. just a couple bucks. the kent 1 tsp treats like 25 gallons and you are only suppose to add it like every couple of weeks

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I've just found this guys selling cuttlefish bones etc, on ebay. Thought is was quite a good deal so i'm
giving it a go...

Over here cuttlebone is only a few dollars and is sold in the bird section of pet stores. Is it expensive there?