Austin Burgess
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So I will probably get put on blast for this question but I am genuinely curious as to why this is:
A lot of people ask this site and or similar ones stocking questions, and a lot of these lists include guppies and tetras or guppies and cories. And the answer always posted is no, absolutely not, because they need hard water, because the ecology of livebearers bodies need the minerals to properly function. That makes perfect sense!
But, my question, especially with guppies specifically, is that wild guppies and platies are found in the Amazon river basin and all throughout Central and South America, where hard water is very hard (haha) to come by. Why is it the case that guppies and platies are found naturally alongside tetras and cories, with all species being healthy, but this cannot be recreated in the home aquarium?
A lot of people ask this site and or similar ones stocking questions, and a lot of these lists include guppies and tetras or guppies and cories. And the answer always posted is no, absolutely not, because they need hard water, because the ecology of livebearers bodies need the minerals to properly function. That makes perfect sense!
But, my question, especially with guppies specifically, is that wild guppies and platies are found in the Amazon river basin and all throughout Central and South America, where hard water is very hard (haha) to come by. Why is it the case that guppies and platies are found naturally alongside tetras and cories, with all species being healthy, but this cannot be recreated in the home aquarium?