In article , rmc
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I know that the person has soft water but I believe they also said they
could and were willing to adjust the water parameters and that they
wanted Africans as the first choice.

That was mainly because I had seen some beautiful ones. In truth I'm
willing to consider anything. I'm still at the general research stage
;-)

Face it, with a 2 ft sq tank and soft water the choices start to get
very narrow unless a person wants to make some adjustments. The ph
does not need to be 9.0 for Tanganyika cichlids. Anything close to 8.0
would be fine. I keep mine in 7.8 which is what my tapwater is.

My tap water is 7, but it doesn't seem to difficult or risky modifying
this slightly. Any other changes that are simple and safe that would
widen the scope ?

Thanx for the reply. I'm going to do a search on the ones you mentioned
to see what they look like. I'm getting confused with so many fish here
!! It's hard to remember what you've seen and not !!

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Alan Silver