Re: [Killietalk] L. tanganicanus need of males and females

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

I watched Robert Nhan do well with them, while I struggled. Want to know 
the real difference?

We both had nice hard water, with ample Ca and Mg and enough carbonate 
hardness to keep them pretty alkaline.

He used huge tanks, and was really religious about water changes, while 
I was pretty good, but that's not good enough at high pH. I was using a 
20G low that did fine until I missed one water change.

Heavy-eating high-metabolism fish produce lots of ammonium. Fewer fish 
in a larger tank can give them some cushion, but A 3/4-filled 20G didn't 
let them survive my mistake.

In this case, the "metabolic mediator" was a lethal dose of ammonia.

This is a tough fish to keep, because the water they like is 
unhospitable to many kinds of plants that would otherwise temper the 
high ammonia. Do what Robert did. Raise them in a 250G tank!

That's my US$0.02. YMMV.

Wright

Pjeversman at aol_com wrote:

> Do not rule out other metabolic mediators.
>
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