Apistogramma agassizii

[Hassan 2021]

Hi all

On my recent visit to my LFS I saw apistogramma agassizii and absolutely fell in love with it however I live In london and have hard alkaline water so my question is has anyone successfully kept this particular species in hard alkaline water?

Thank you in advance

 

[jaylach]

apistogramma agassizii is a South American Cichlid and would want fairly soft water. However tank bred fish of this type tend to do fine in harder water than wild caught. Before you even consider this fish you need to find the actual hardness of your water. Your water company should be able to supply this information.

 

[Hassan 2021]

apistogramma agassizii is a South American Cichlid and would want fairly soft water. However tank bred fish of this type tend to do fine in harder water than wild caught. Before you even consider this fish you need to find the actual hardness of your water. Your water company should be able to supply this information.

Total carbonate hardness for my postcode is 281ppm, (degrees Clarke 19.6)

 

[Essjay]

Deg Clarke isn't used in fish keeping. It converts to 15.7 dH, and the calculator on here also confirms that both dH and Clarke levels are the same as 281 ppm.

It's very hard. I'm not sure I'd keep even line bred agassizii's in water that hard Of course you could always set up another tank for them and mix your tap water with RO

 

[Hassan 2021]

Any excuse to get a new tank works for me
If I was to go down the route of mixing water with RO water. How would I go about doing that in terms of ratio/percentage

 

[Hassan 2021]

Deg Clarke isn't used in fish keeping. It converts to 15.7 dH, and the calculator on here also confirms that both dH and Clarke levels are the same as 281 ppm.

It's very hard. I'm not sure I'd keep even line bred agassizii's in water that hard Of course you could always set up another tank for them and mix your tap water with RO

My parents live near surrey and I checked water quality report:
dh 10.09 which according to calculator comes up as 180.179 ppm

 

[Essjay]

Their water would be OK but it would mean you having some at your home at all times in case an emergency water change needed to be done.

With RO, mixing it with tap water 50:50 would give you ~8 dH/140 ppm. You would need to mix the water outside the tank at every water change. A tank for just the apistos and maybe a shoal of upper level fish wouldn't need to be huge - 60 cm is the recommended minimum length for them - so 50% water changes wouldn't mean a large amount to mix.

 

[Hassan 2021]

Their water would be OK but it would mean you having some at your home at all times in case an emergency water change needed to be done.

With RO, mixing it with tap water 50:50 would give you ~8 dH/140 ppm. You would need to mix the water outside the tank at every water change. A tank for just the apistos and maybe a shoal of upper level fish wouldn't need to be huge - 60 cm is the recommended minimum length for them - so 50% water changes wouldn't mean a large amount to mix.

Thank you so much for your advice and recommendations really appreciate it.