ryanjury Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Regardless of the rules this person did the right thing, frontosa are very big fish with speciffic conditions and they would die or not do well in the wrong conditions.. I went and brought some fish from a guy who had some for sale and he said he had someone wanting to buy them and put 27 in a 300L tank.. These guys should be in 6ft minimum as adults or even from around 10-15cm's so luckily he didn't pass them on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 frontosa are very big fish with speciffic conditions and they would die or not do well in the wrong conditions.. Its funny how people here are so pedantic about keeping them in hard water biotope type tanks (probably just because they're new/rare etc), yet on MFK people keep them with all sorts of other fish in "normal" water and have them thriving. Good on you for keeping them in the 'correct' conditions, but really, they're not going to drop dead instantly if the pH drops below 8.... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 That is true alot of my africans are kept in whatever comes out of the tank and some surviving ones that were supposed to be discus food actually grew very fast in my discus tank.. They wouldn't do well in very soft acidic water and the addition of anything to make it harder or more alkaline would make them happier. I had a tank full of africans when I first started and chucked a piece of drift wood in there, the fish were all fine happy and swimming around until 2 days after the drift wood after that they just sulked and sat around under the rocks hardly eating etc took me a week to figure out the ph was around 6 and the driftwood had dropped it, I removed the driftwood and chucked some coral in and the fish picked up again... Maybe they would have got used to it and cheered up but they weren't happy. I have heard that fish absorb the calcium and that out of the harder water to grow and develop, if a fish comes from an area where in the wild there is lots of calcium it wont do so well without it in its tank, and vice versa with softwater fish.. Unsure if this is true but it sounded interesting to me. With fronts I would say its more having a tank that is big enough for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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