What is the difference between Cory and Temp Chocolates
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The breeding dress of coryphaenoides is simply beautiful.
But when not in spawning mood or caring for fry the temporalis show way more colour.
H. coryphaenoides can be way more sensitiv to high ph and harder water than temporalis. While most temporalis have no problems with a ph up till 7or sometimes even higher, coryphaenoides do best with ph of 6.5 and below.
But when not in spawning mood or caring for fry the temporalis show way more colour.
H. coryphaenoides can be way more sensitiv to high ph and harder water than temporalis. While most temporalis have no problems with a ph up till 7or sometimes even higher, coryphaenoides do best with ph of 6.5 and below.
Agree with the above,
If your tap water is neutral, or slightly acidic, you should probably choose H temporalis.
Only choose H coryphaenoides if your tap water is acidic, with low pH.
The pH sensitivity isn't so much about harming the fish itself, but ..... its about the bacteria the species has evolved resistance to.
A fish evolving in low pH water, will not have immunity for the normal bacterial populations found in neutral to higher pH water, such as those that cause HITH.
In addition to being a more blackwater species that’s sensitive to harder water, coryphaenoides were also much more aggressive for me, shredding conspecifics and also other large cichlid species like Heros. I eventually had to isolate all mine from each other and their tankmates.
