Turtle Bone????!

[i Aqua]

So here is a question I personally never seen it done before for aquarium fish. Is it safe to use turtle bone for tropical fish like African cichlids??! My neighbor is using turtle bones for his African Cichlids and I never seen it done before. Have you guys used it before? I was going to Google it but I also wanted your opinion as well

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Too much calcium is bad for fish, right? It sounds like cuttlebone to me. I wouldn't do it.

 

[i Aqua]

I thought I've seen and heard everything in 30+years. But not this one. That's why I'm curious I told him I've seen or heard that turtle bone is good for fish. Funny thing is he's been using on and off for the last 3 years according to him.

 

[eon aquatics]

what is the turtle bone product intended for?
substrate?
i wouldn't use that or any sort of sand/crushed coral
if you want to feed your fish nutrients and such i would try to gut load earthworms or crickets with reptile multivitamin

 

[i Aqua]

what is the turtle bone product intended for?
substrate?
i wouldn't use that or any sort of sand/crushed coral
if you want to feed your fish nutrients and such i would try to gut load earthworms or crickets with reptile multivitamin

It is intended for turtles. I have African cichlids I would never feed them earthworms ?. I totally agree with you guys not use such thing. When I saw it I was literally tripping out lol. I didn't say anything to him because I wasn't to sure if he was right or wrong.

 

[eon aquatics]

why not feed earthworms? are they too large or something?

 

[i Aqua]

From my 35 years experience earthworms made my African cichlids sick. By nature earthworms are not part of their diet.

 

[Milingu]

That's just cuttlebone. It mostly consists of crystalline calcium carbonate called Aragonite. It's like coral. It will not do any harm. It's just an expensive and in my eyes quite ineffective way of stabilising your pH like you do with crushed coral.

 

[i Aqua]

That's just cuttlebone. It mostly consists of crystalline calcium carbonate called Aragonite. It's like coral. It will not do any harm. It's just an expensive and in my eyes quite ineffective way of stabilising your pH like you do with crushed coral.

So this won't change the water elements like clarity?

 

[Milingu]

It will not affect the clarity. It will raise your pH and water hardness if the pH is below 7.
I have only seen it being used to provide minerals to snails and crustaceans when they were kept in softer water.
In a typical African cichlid tank with already alkaline water I wouldn't expect any noticeable effect.