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Odessa barbs are gorgeous but I find them less hardy and shorter lived. It could be my water but all my females have bloated up and died one at a time. I started with two dozen and now have nine males over the course of four years
 
tcrlightemup said:
Never heard of odessa...intrigues me lol my wife now wants shell dwellers so thanks kewpie ha

Edit..i have 2 aquaclear 50g and a double headed sponge. Switching to a homemade 5gal bucket canister soon though
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40g would be perfect for shell dwellers
 
What's your pH and hardness? The dwarf cichlids generally like neutral or lower pH, and softer water, where I think the shell dwellers are the opposite. But maybe the shellies can tolerate a wider range. I'm not super familiar with them.
 
Yes, good point the shell dwellers are from Lake Tanganyika and will require a high pH~8.0
 
Big Jay said:
You could also do a barb/asian tank. I had a beautiful tank filled with Odessa, Roseline, and some other barbs. The Roselines would be a little too big but Odessa, Panda, Tiger, and maybe some Garra would be really cool.
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Not trying to hijack this thread, but I'm in the process of setting up a 125 gallon tank with Odessa barbs, clown barbs, Dawkinsia rohani, Dawkinsia assimilis, Dawkinsia filamentosa. We're also putting a fairly large school of panda garra in for the botttom inhabitants.
 
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Def Leppard Hysteria said:
Not trying to hijack this thread, but I'm in the process of setting up a 125 gallon tank with Odessa barbs, clown barbs, Dawkinsia rohani, Dawkinsia assimilis, Dawkinsia filamentosa. We're also putting a fairly large school of panda garra in for the botttom inhabitants.
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That sounds awesome, there's something really appealing about a large collection of smaller fish in a big tank.
 
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My ph is actually 8.0 out of the tap. Im on well water coming from my landlords farm. Still cant decide on shell dwelling cichlids or a big planted tank...
 
Hmmmm... well with that pH maybe you could do some locally raised apistos or bolivian rams? What is available in your LFS? I don't think you'd want to go with anything shipped or wild caught. (For dwarf cichlids) I'd think that anything captive bred from your LFS would already be acclimated to the pH.
 
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