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Hanzle

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Vlg mij ging het onderwerp dat de poster over een paar bindingen plaatste....daar gaat mijn commentaar dan ook over.
Als ik apistoos ga kopen is dat meestal in dezelfde winkels. Bij sommige krijg ik bij aankomst al een netje in mijn handen geduwt omdat ik zo maar een uur voor een bak met apistoos zit om te kijken naar een mooi mannetje en dan kijken of r een vrouwtje bij zit waar hij defect mee omgaat en welke hij op zoekt. Vrouwtjes 2, 3 en meer vang ik r zo uit, zonder screening tov het mannetje. Het is geen garantie maar pakt bij mij vaak goed uit.
 

Gamegurl

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I would steer you towards Kribensis.
They are lovely fish and I dont know that they mate for life but my pair are quite happy.
If they do breed watching them steer the young around is a sight to see.
 

MacZ

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I would steer you towards Kribensis.
They are lovely fish and I dont know that they mate for life but my pair are quite happy.
If they do breed watching them steer the young around is a sight to see.
Pelvicachromis are prolific breeders, they reproduce at rates, it's not funny at one point. And you have to lie to people to have them take the offspring from your hands. Also they can terrorize a tank more when brooding than any Apistogramma can. Usually you get a new batch every 2-3 weeks and even with fry predating tetras they get through at least half of them.

I'd only get them if I had a deal with a store to guaranteed take them off my hands.
 

anewbie

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Pelvicachromis are prolific breeders, they reproduce at rates, it's not funny at one point. And you have to lie to people to have them take the offspring from your hands. Also they can terrorize a tank more when brooding than any Apistogramma can. Usually you get a new batch every 2-3 weeks and even with fry predating tetras they get through at least half of them.

I'd only get them if I had a deal with a store to guaranteed take them off my hands.
The common kribs i had were not too bad when it came to terrorizing. They even came to accept the school of pygmy cory i had as harmless and let them mingle with the frys (which made it easier for pygmy to feed as they now just followed the frys around).

Yes they guard the frys as they are excellent parents but as long as you stay away from their precious they weren't too bad. Of course there are many species of kribs and the common kribs aren't actually kribs so the experience of yours might differ from mine.
 

MacZ

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It's less the agression level, rather the efficiency they keep their fry from predation. Aggression I mostly noted towards similarly sized fish.

In any case... you get fry in numbers that are hard to handle quickly.
 

dw1305

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Hi all,
Gotcha. I have always been paranoid about my ph crashing or just being unstable in general but the more i read on the forum it sounds like I might be over thinking it?
Yes, basically they are both <"common misconceptions"> in the hobby. Unfortunately the whole area of buffering and pH is <"conceptually quite difficult"> for "non-chemists", of which I'm one, as the linked <"UKAPS thread"> clearly demonstrates.

The real problem is that you just can't extrapolate from hard, alkaline buffered water to soft, unbuffered water. This is mainly because pH is a log10 scale, and pH <"isn't really meaningful"> as you get towards pure H2O.

What matters to the fish is the change in chemical composition of the water.
  • In hard, alkaline water large changes in water chemistry are needed to create small changes in pH (this is what "buffer" means), and
  • in soft water small changes in water chemistry cause large changes in pH.
This is why conductivity is useful. Pure H2O doesn't conduct electricity, but as you add ions conductivity rises in a linear manner. If you have low conductivity, you don't have many ions and pH is a moveable feast and it doesn't matter.

cheers Darrel
 

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