Fish Suggestion Wanted

Elaine wrote:
"Frank" wrote in message
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Hello Elaine - thought you fell off the earth or something...
You and yours, and every body else out there, have a beautiful
Christmas.......... Frank


Thanks Frank, but I think maybe you're confusing me with another Elaine
because this is my first post on this group, although I've posted on
alt.aquaria.tropical.fish.hobbist a few times.

Anyway, the same to you and everyone else.

Elaine (K)


Hi, Frank. I got busy with schoolwork. But I'm back too. Welcome,
Elaine K!

Oh - and I totally agree with harlequins. They're tolerant of higher pH
and stick together in an unusually tight shoal.

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I also think harlequins are nice looking fish.

Just curious, I tried to keep harlequins 5 or so years ago in my tank
with a PH of 8.2 and they would die off quickly (same with any type of
tetra). Are they finky about hard water? I didn't want to battle
hardwater with chemicals and the like, so I switched to Tanganykan
cichlids and they are extremely happy.

ClownPleco wrote:
I also think harlequins are nice looking fish.

Just curious, I tried to keep harlequins 5 or so years ago in my tank
with a PH of 8.2 and they would die off quickly (same with any type of
tetra). Are they finky about hard water? I didn't want to battle
hardwater with chemicals and the like, so I switched to Tanganykan
cichlids and they are extremely happy.

They're soft water fish, hovever I have a shoal of the closely related
Espei rasboras in my moderately hard water here. They're at about pH
7.8 and seem healthy (eating, pooping, and growing). It's hard to know
how different our water is, though. Yours may be more mineralized.
Harlequins certainly can't breed in hard water and high pH.

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ClownPleco wrote,
Just curious, I tried to keep harlequins 5 or so years ago in my tank
with a PH of 8.2 and they would die off quickly (same with any type of
tetra). Are they finky about hard water?

It's TDS (total dissolved solids) they are finky about. Different pH
(high or low) doesn't seem to do anything but keeping them from
breeding............ Frank