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Well my room is 78 as i live in a warm climate - at least during the summer. I think perhaps a specific temperture - my coolest aquarium runs 73-74 during the winter and i have n. marylin and morse code tetra in that one along with tucano.
hum op said 72 should work for morse code; marilynae...
They are ok - i have some Hyphessobrycon negodagua which seem to be more aggressive at eating and are also sadly a bit larger so they would probably swarm frys 'cept i never seen them go low - hum. That reminds me my keri tetra never seem to go low either my nijjensi bred with them and i was...
I have no clue what i'm sayng other than that i never vacuum the substrate it is too messy down there and i'm tried of making a mess.
That crypt is actually pretty nice on both sides - i believe it is keei - one of the nicer plants i traded for - having a bucket full of nurii make for good trades.
So when i tried to catch a fish in my 10 i had to pull out some plants - these have been in there less than a year; in addition i had about 1/2 inch of mulim some of which got removed - anyway the point here is that if i disturb the substrate i'm going to break up all my lovely roots :( These...
None sense - everyone knows fishes are just like humans. They have friends and enemies - they have fellow fishes they love to hang out with and others they avoid like the plague. Rumor is if you catch them late at night they even do algebra; but don't try to get them to do your homework they do...
My vague memory is someone of authority commented on this forum that in the wild the larger more dominant females tended to breed higher up in the stream producing more males and the smaller or less dominant females would breed with smaller males in lower areas producing more females. Perhaps...
I would think something a bit larger than 80-100 liter if you want to grow out a full set to > 1 inch; also be aware that it can take 9 to 12 months to grow them out. Water quality is rather important for the grow out and the smaller the volume the more polluted that water will become rapidly...
Interesting - yea for small amount of water you trade off energy vs waste water. I've been looking at solar distiller for volume though in my case i need a lot more water and the energy demand is quite high. Even at small volume if you are using electricity off the grid it would be interesting...
Using distill water in the long run will be rather expensive over the years. You would be better off with an ro unit or just going with fishes that prefer your native water.
it is a bit on the small size and the water is quite hard. If a species of apistogramma can handle it they will but you will be pushing the upper limit. Off the top of my head the only small docile dwarf cichild i think of that likes hard water are shell-dwellers but i'm sure others iwll chime in.
Looks small what are the dimension; how hard is your water (kh/gh) and what temp. Ember tetra are ok in the sense they won't be too much of an issue but opal prefer cooler water so the tank will be at the low end for them - maybe 72 or 73.
Are you talking domestic or wc; i would think 30 years ago they would have been mostly wc at least for dwarf cichild.
These days the market is less informed and the desire is more focus on beauty - though my sense of beauty seems a bit different than the typical mass producer. In any even as...
I suspect there are so many species being wiped out the next 50 years that conservation is going to look like a stone throw in an ocean. That doesnt' make it wrong and I will certianly not intentionally mix species hence my elizabeth becoming orphans and ceasing breeding of my ortegai once Frank...
If it makes you feel better I have 3 wc female elizabeth that are 'orphaned' because I won't put a male with them from another catch location. Given how exporters work i can never be sure if a male came from the same location. Kind of a pity since they are nice fishes.
It depends if they are both genetically the same species. Looking at tom's website there are a *lot* of cf bitaeniata which are probably similar but genetically different species. I'm sure frank or mike can comment on more on peru vs brazil and if they are likely the same species or different...
If you had a 2nd aquarium it might be interesting to just let them grow out but otherwise I would play it safe unless there is some big expense involved. I was speculating to myself the breeder might have mixed inca and inca 2 thinking they were the same species but that is just speculation.
Nijjensi was my first guess since i keep them but i didn't want to say anything because he doesn't really look like Nijjensi - something is just wrong with his lines. I've not kept Baenshci and i did check tom's pictures but also if they were young (he looks like an adult) they could be...