Break down on Geos?
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Severums are relatively mellow in my experience. Of course as always, each fishing their own being. Otherwise I could see success with geos
Its easy to find out your basic water parameters. Either call your water company and ask them to send you a breakdown, or google your state/city/water quality report, and with a little digging you'll get the break down.
If you do frequent water changes, your tanks and tap shouldn't be that far apart.
With aquarium strain fish from LFSs, water chemistry breakdown may not be that significant.
Although I believe the many of the HITH cases seen in oscars is due to being kept in water parameters they have not evolved to live in, and even 100 years of aquarium breeding probably doesn't alter 50 million of evolution.
Especially when you start getting into more sensitive species like Geos, matching water parameters to their natural specs really comes into play to keep them healthy.
If you have soft, low TDS water, the Amazon basin fish would work well.
If hard, alkaline water with high TDS, species from the western slopes of S America and Central America may be better choices (ie Red Humps)
If you do frequent water changes, your tanks and tap shouldn't be that far apart.
With aquarium strain fish from LFSs, water chemistry breakdown may not be that significant.
Although I believe the many of the HITH cases seen in oscars is due to being kept in water parameters they have not evolved to live in, and even 100 years of aquarium breeding probably doesn't alter 50 million of evolution.
Especially when you start getting into more sensitive species like Geos, matching water parameters to their natural specs really comes into play to keep them healthy.
If you have soft, low TDS water, the Amazon basin fish would work well.
If hard, alkaline water with high TDS, species from the western slopes of S America and Central America may be better choices (ie Red Humps)
In the grains scale, anything 10 or over is definetly hard, mine is 7 grains and considered medium, to moderately hard.
With those conditions, I wouldn't think any amazonian fish would be a good choice for your tanks, although some of the altifrons are considered a "white water river" species as opposed to the black water types that live in negligable mineral content waters.
I would consider the red humps in your LFS a good candidate for your water, they are from west of the Andes where mineral content is considerably higher than the amazon region.
Geophagus crassilabrus (from Panama) is found in Lake Gatun, which has pH fluctuations that reach into the 9+ range.
With those conditions, I wouldn't think any amazonian fish would be a good choice for your tanks, although some of the altifrons are considered a "white water river" species as opposed to the black water types that live in negligable mineral content waters.
I would consider the red humps in your LFS a good candidate for your water, they are from west of the Andes where mineral content is considerably higher than the amazon region.
Geophagus crassilabrus (from Panama) is found in Lake Gatun, which has pH fluctuations that reach into the 9+ range.
