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Re: Digest for detr-@topica.com, issue 89  mopargrrl
 Jan 14, 2002 23:34 PST 
William,

There are a group of Tanganyikan fish called the shell-dwellers.
Excellent little fish. They'd actually like your water to be in the
very hard pH 9.0 range, but you could get away with less
although they may not spawn for you. Look at the Neolamprologus
species. I'm keeping N. similis, but they aren't spawning for
me so i can't help you with fry.

Also look around for Apisto. agassizi and A. caucatoides.
They are usually tank bred fish so they can handle the harder
water. But they probably won't spawn for you unless you
cut your tap water with some RO or start filtering through
peat.   Jim A. sometimes has caucatoides at the auctions.

And, as a last resort <g> you could head down to San
Jose for a PCCA auction. They always have some dwarf
cichlids (African and S.A) available.

christine



----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Kauschen <kaus-@mac.com>;
To: <detr-@topica.com>;
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Digest for detr-@topica.com, issue 89


 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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