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Re: Stocking ideals for ultra hard water tank

Subject: Re: Stocking ideals for ultra hard water tank
by Fishlady on 30/5/2019 9:19:26

Breeding the barbs and gouramis isn't really practical in a single tank as they are egg layers and will eat their own/each other's eggs. You'd need a separate spawning tank for that. Livebearers are easy to breed, but parents will eat them so you'd want lots of plants to allow a few to escape. However, at 76 cms the tank is too small for those gouramis, Odessa barbs and for swordtails,and goodeids from the livebearer list.

The tank is too small for anything from Lake Malawi, but there are possibilities for Tanganyikan cichlids, including breeding. You could either have a single species set up and breed any of the shell dwellers (Neolamprologus multifasciatus, N. ocellatus, N. similis) or Fairy cichlids (N. brichardi) or a smaller Julidochromis such as J. transcriptus. Those would all breed and won't eat their own young. You could also possibly have a group of shell dwellers plus a pair of J. transcriptus. They will still breed, but fewer fry will survive as they will eat each other's offspring.