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Re: Digest for detr-@topica.com, issue 89	Eric Kauschen
	Jan 14, 2002 21:32 PST

William, While the books don't called them "Dwarf Cichlids" (well usually they don't) there are plenty of small East African's that like hard high pH water that would do fine. Lelupi's are one that I remember seeing in the auctions a few years ago. I haven't been to a meeting in several years so I don't know what goes through there lately. As for the soft water acid dwarfs. The pH is more like the 5.0 range for most of the South Americans, while some of the Nanochromis and Kribs will handle 7.0 pretty well. Kribs are sort of like the goldfish of the dwarf cichlid world. If they can't handle your water most fish can't. Eric Kauschen on 01/14/2002 03:42 PM, jgarde-@juno.com at jgarde-@juno.com wrote:   I know... I was *hoping* I could track down some species that were at least tolerant of it, or maybe some strain that was adapted to it... William On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:45:47 -0800 Karlton Lau <karlto-@xilinx.com>; writes:   If I'm not mistaken, most cichlids referred to as "dwarf cichlids" like soft acid (meaning <7.0 pH) water. You'd probably be better off working with some African cichlid species.

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