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With your water -- that high in pH and hardness -- I suggest that you try keeping African cichlids. They will love your water, and make great tanks.
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Can you describe their deaths in detail? Also, try to remember if there had been any maintenance (like water changes) in the couple days before each death. And how large are the water changes you do, and how far apart? Can you test the kH and gH of both the tap and the tank? I have to wonder if there is some sort of shock going on, which is where a lot of these questions are leading.
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Salt is for anchovies, unless your making a pizza cut it out.
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Normally I would agree with you, but in this case (because they are almost all livebearers that would live part of their lives in brackish to full seawater in the wild) the salt might ease stress.
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On the other hand, if you are adding salt every time you do a water change, you may have been building up the salt in the tank. I agree with Lumberjack -- the general use of salt in an aquarium is really unnecessary -- and can cause problems.
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| This is my first visit, and this caught my eye, as I have a 29 long tank, with 15 male fancy guppies, and now I am losing another one, to the same thing wrong with your fish. They hang around the top by themself, and finally end up on the bottom, and can't seem to move much and then they die. It could take up to a week also. It's sad.
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Glenda, post your own topic about this in the emergency section and we'll help you from there. Also, when you do, post more specifics about your set up, especially the readings (in numbers) for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH. You can have your local fish store test for you if you don't have the kits...just make sure you get the numbers.
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