Seems I’ve always had some form of cichlid, as long as I’ve been keeping fish… but when I was younger, it was all about big fish, then the colorful but scrappy African’s…
When I got back into fish recently, I tried some cockatoo apisto’s, back before I got my water straightened out, and they just didn’t last long in hard alkaline water… I’m now running RO, and have greater control
I’m setting up a South American tank with tetras and dwarf cichlids
1st dwarf cichlids, since I got my water fixed, arrived yesterday… I bought them in 3’s to start with… hoping I end up with at least 2 of each, that make it with mail order shipping… ( not really trying to breed them though ) the tank is a heavily filtered 55 gallon, so I would like this to be a “busy” tank… I got some German blue rams, some double red apisto’s, and some colorful orange fire apisto’s, that I had never seen before… of course everything came in tiny, but surprisingly colorful… the cockatoo’ I had before, never really colored up, probably because of the alkaline water… I got a fantastic piece of driftwood yesterday, that’s full of little hidey holes, that going to work great for all the little cichlids… most came in at 1 inch… these are a few of the lil orange fire apisto’s
When I got back into fish recently, I tried some cockatoo apisto’s, back before I got my water straightened out, and they just didn’t last long in hard alkaline water… I’m now running RO, and have greater control
I’m setting up a South American tank with tetras and dwarf cichlids
1st dwarf cichlids, since I got my water fixed, arrived yesterday… I bought them in 3’s to start with… hoping I end up with at least 2 of each, that make it with mail order shipping… ( not really trying to breed them though ) the tank is a heavily filtered 55 gallon, so I would like this to be a “busy” tank… I got some German blue rams, some double red apisto’s, and some colorful orange fire apisto’s, that I had never seen before… of course everything came in tiny, but surprisingly colorful… the cockatoo’ I had before, never really colored up, probably because of the alkaline water… I got a fantastic piece of driftwood yesterday, that’s full of little hidey holes, that going to work great for all the little cichlids… most came in at 1 inch… these are a few of the lil orange fire apisto’s
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