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I am not one of those people that just go around looking for threads to shoot down. But I would reccomend removing that frontosa from the tank before it dies from stress and or improper water parameters. Frontosa have completly different requirments than south americans. Also they are deep water fish so they prefer darker tanks with caves and other hiding places.
 
toddhgr;3976296; said:
I am not one of those people that just go around looking for threads to shoot down. But I would reccomend removing that frontosa from the tank before it dies from stress and or improper water parameters. Frontosa have completly different requirments than south americans. Also they are deep water fish so they prefer darker tanks with caves and other hiding places.
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I totally understand where you're coming from, you're just trying to be helpful. As for the hiding place thing, I have five clay pots, a giant rock slate like thing, and a bunch of driftwoods. As for the parameters thing, that is a red frontosa (man- made) which was bred in an aquarium. pH and hardness of water is way overblown, as long as the stats are consistant and stable you're good. FYI my pH is 7.8, which is perfect for a frontosa. And the ebjd doesn't mind at all.
 
toddhgr;3976296; said:
I am not one of those people that just go around looking for threads to shoot down. But I would recommend removing that frontosa from the tank before it dies from stress and or improper water parameters. Frontosa have completely different requirements than south Americans. Also they are deep water fish so they prefer darker tanks with caves and other hiding places.
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O'really....
What if the fronts are captive bred and stayed in water that wasn't from there natural habitat? What if the front was a 100th generation of captive bred fronts?

I would agree with you if they were WC. But, even if it was, I had a WC front that lived happy with SA fishes....

Does that make me a bad fish keeper......

OP: Great collection.
 
Dude take it easy. I was just offering friendly advice. And just because somthing survives doesn't make it right. There is a big difference between survive and thrive. People keep animals in all sorts of terrible and ill suited conditions and most of them survive for a while.
 
toddhgr;3976350; said:
Dude take it easy. I was just offering friendly advice. And just because somthing survives doesn't make it right. There is a big difference between survive and thrive. People keep animals in all sorts of terrible and ill suited conditions and most of them survive for a while.
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Didn't mean to come off rude or anything, but it sounded like you were demanding that he isolate the front. There is a lot of people here that has that combo (Africans and SA). Aren't poly's from Africa to? I'm just saying, it's alright to mix.
 
toddhgr;3976350; said:
Dude take it easy. I was just offering friendly advice. And just because somthing survives doesn't make it right. There is a big difference between survive and thrive. People keep animals in all sorts of terrible and ill suited conditions and most of them survive for a while.
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Now I really take great offense to that. Are you trying to say my fish are thriving in a harsh environment?
  • red frontosa- captive bred
  • ebjd- captive bred
  • delhezi- captive bred
  • albino poly- captive bred
Captive bred fish can tolerate many water parameters and live happy lives. Take for example captive bred discus, many people raise them in hard alkaline waters and they do fine. And all my fish are doing perfectly fine.
 
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