I thought about kribs, but the tank I'm wanting to put these in has both
cories and Amano shrimp already in it. The tank is three feet long (forty
gallons) so hopefully there will be room for territories, but I vaguely
recall rumors of kribs munching on Amanos.
The shell dwellers are cool, but they are a bit out of my price range.
Also, they dig a lot, and I have some laterite in my gravel that clouds
the water whenever you dig... not good.
I discussed the options on some other online groups, and the options were
pretty much whittled down to kribs, A. caucatuoides, and A. borelli. I
was hoping I could track down some locally bred fish, so I turned here.
Oh, Jim, have you got any extra caucatuoides? ;-)
I don't really care if they breed. Actually, I'd rather they didn't, just
so that I don't have to worry about the parents murdering the other fish.
Thanks!
William :-)
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:33:17 Ed Pon <edp-@hotmail.com>; writes:
| | One thing I've noted is that we keep most of our dwarf cichlids
within
"recommended" parameters and are unaware of what they're capable of
withstanding.
I saw an article recently that stated A Borellii had the furthest
south
distribution of any apisto and had been found in water as cold as 50
degrees
Fahrenheit and in alkaline water. I once raised a couple of female
Trifasciata, because of lack of tank space, with a tankful of
Cyprochromis
Leptosoma (Lake Tanganyikan) and they seemed to do pretty well in
the hard
water. I hardened the water but did not check the PH.
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| | 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.
-Karlton
detr-@topica.com wrote:
| | Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:10:56 -0800
From: jgarde-@juno.com
Subject: Anybody breeding dwarf Cichlids locally?
I would love to get a pair/trio of some dwarf Cichlid species
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Does anybody have some locally bred community-behaved Rift
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Thanks! ;-)
William
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