Special water conditions for African cichlids
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Water should be hard and alkaline. You can accomplish this with cichlid buffer, but I prefer just putting a filter bag full of araganite in the filter. Having limestone based rocks and substrate in the tank will also do the trick.
not "needed" but if your water is acidic to neutral and only slightly hard, adding some Rift Lake salts can help to increase both ph and hardness as well as provide some important minerals which these species benefit from.
i use it...because the ph out of my tap is 7.2 ishjsummers said:
with that.....and lace rock......my ph is 7.8