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Yeah I love larger schoals of corydoras. We were up at a local fish store and I spotted a few imposter corydoras mixed in with a school. Very cool indeed, but the parameters for Corydoras are a bit tough over here, especially for breeding. We have liquid rock out of the tap, great for rift lake cichlids though bad for soft water amazonians... We have done a few soft/low ph tanks and dropped it to below 6.0 (I'm guessing in the mid 5's) but hauling RO/DI water for all water changes can become a chore. I suppose a home RO/DI system is a necessity if we ever want to try and keep/breed them....
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Fluid rock haha. What are normal waterparameters from tapwater??? Mine Ph is 7,2 and they all all in normal tapwater. Some species will need a lower ph though (habrosus aso). Aeneus, Paleatus aso are hardened and can be kept in higher PHComment
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Average water out of our tap is Ph - 8.2, TDS - 350-400ppm. We can water change our Tanganyikans and they just love those parameters, but any softer water South Americans/South East Asian fish can survive. I have seen some folks breed them locally, but other then peppered/bronze cories, the rest need far softer water.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Okay so you have to chew your water before swallowing it? I'll ask a Scottish expert if there are any other ones you could keep in that.Comment
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Ehh, I actually prefer the stranger softer water species. Just one of those issues we realize and deal with. RO/DI water is our only real viable solution for maintaining anything requiring soft parameters. I have been tossing around the idea of doing a true Amazonian black water biotope with tannin stained water, driftwood, no plants, and spotlight LED's to reproduce the dappling of the minimal light in their environment. Likely would do a breeding group of Hatchets, checkerboard cichlids, and some type of Corydoras and a nicer Panaque or Ancistrus family L type.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Ahhh misunderstood !!!! Yeah that's my dream too. There is a guy overhere that has a 3 meter tank that way (one of the few with such large tank). I'll try and give you the adress of his thread on the Dutch forum later. Amazing !!!!!Comment
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That sounds great, would love to see it. Seems like there is always some fish/biotope I am wanting to set up. I saw some WC Eel Tailed Banjo cats (Platystacus cotylephorus) for sale recently and had a bad case of wanting to set up a biotope species only tank for them...In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Hahaha same problem as here : they are all just tooooo nice hahaha.Comment
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Surprise surprise. Discovered two c.Panda amongst the Aeneus
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Congrats on the accidental breeding! Nothing suggests you are keeping them happy like that...In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Hahaha thanks. put some plants from the pandatank in my breeding tank. Must have been eggs in there. They let me think they didn't spawn. Sneaky between the plants they did hihihi.
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