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Re:Fish Eat Calcium Carbonate!?
Lovell writes:
> My water is extremely soft (<1 dKH) so I put generic pharmaceutical
> calcium supplement tablets in the tank at each water change. When I
> first started doing this, I noticed that the SAE seemed to love the
> stuff -- he would stick his face into it and stir it all up. Then the
> next day I'd see white SAE poop all over the tank. Now my new Moonlight
> Gourami is doing the same thing in my other tank. Have any of you CaCO3
> users noticed this behavior? Any thoughts as to why it might be
> happening? It doesn't seem to hurt the fish any.<<snip>
The tablets are probably held together by a binder the fish find tasty. As
long as it doens't seem to be hurting them, think of it as a distribution
system.
Bob Dixon