White Peacock Endlers

[richard_mincher]

Just wondering if anyone could tell me what exactly the living conditions of these fish are??? liek their fav temp, and PH... and whether they are good comunity fish, i should mention a friend of a friend has some and is trying to sell them... i just wanted to know what they were like?
thanks very much,

 

[Nevergone815]

if i am not mistaken they are an endler hybrid so the needs are pretty much the same as either endlers or other guppies out there. i beleive that the set up for a tropical community tank should be ideal.

tank stats should be:
-0 ammonia
-0 nitrite
-very low (no more than double the amount in gallons i.e 10 gal no more than 20) nitrate
-around 75-85F
-around 7-7.5 pH
-around 12 dH/hardness

and depending on the other tankmates you should have a nice tank set up. just have a 1male:2-3 female ratio with ALL livebearers and even some egglayers. they are a relatively hardy species and you should be ok. tankmates could include other livebearers, otto cats, plecos, cories, etc. things of that sort. things that don't get too big and are peaceful. don't put them in with any slow moving fish as guppies as well as tetras are avid fin nippers. and it won't be pretty.

you could have an all gender tank like all males or females, but the number kept should be like around 6 to keep aggression down (mostly with males)

 

[dwarfgourami]

tank stats should be:

-very low (no more than double the amount in gallons i.e 10 gal no more than 20) nitrate

Where did you get this figure? It would make small tank keeping pretty well impossible in places like southern England where 40 ppm nitrates come out of the tap. On the other hand, it would allow 120 ppm nitrates in my (coming soon) 60 gallon tank, which on the face of it doesn't look like a brilliant idea.

 

[Nevergone815]

tank stats should be:

-very low (no more than double the amount in gallons i.e 10 gal no more than 20) nitrate

Where did you get this figure? It would make small tank keeping pretty well impossible in places like southern England where 40 ppm nitrates come out of the tap. On the other hand, it would allow 120 ppm nitrates in my (coming soon) 60 gallon tank, which on the face of it doesn't look like a brilliant idea.

i was always told that yuo should have this in smaller tanks (the double the amount of gallons). i should have mentioned this like 20 gal and below. i was just stating what i have been tought and wonderd about the higher values as well in larger tanks. that's why i only go by this for smaller tanks. i should have specified that sorry. i just never kept anything bigger than a 10 gal so far so i don't know about the larger tanks yet.

as for the nitrates in southern England being 40ppm out of the tap... i don't live in England i live in the US and my water has 0 nitrates out of the tap. i don't know if that is the entire country as i'm sure its not, but just my water.