Re: [Killietalk] The Brooklyn Bridge

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

"Rusty Scalf" <rscalf at jps_net> wrote:

> http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1174
> "These fish are ideal fish for the community aquarium, ....."
>
> Is this really true? This was never my impression.

Ideal? No way. OTOH, Rusty, I have kept GAR in community tanks with 
mostly larger fish, without any problems. The rest of the description is 
utter hogwash. These are Fp. that strongly prefer harder alkaline water 
and come from the highland savannah, not the coastal rainforest (soft, 
acid). They are considered to be semi-annuals. I always had my best 
results when I treated them that way, and let their eggs gestate in 
fairly damp peat.

They bred like rabbits in my rather hard Fremont water.

YMMV.

Wright

PS. Lissa Derugin had a really nice strain of N'sukka that actually did 
pretty well in her soft Palo Alto water. I always considered them to be 
an exception that proves the rule (i.e., a bit weird). :-)

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