How to keep soft water fish in a hard water area.

[ember04]

yeah i currently have a single nertie snail which is nice

 

[StripySnailGirl04]

yeah i currently have a single nertie snail which is nice

Good!

 

[ClownLurch]

Mosquito Fish are your friends. Heterandria Formosa.
Worlds smallest livebearer: M-18mm/F-30mm.
Nowhere near as active as Endlers and nowhere near as eyecatching. Just add to hard/very hard water and they’ll be doing the do. Fry numbers are very low in comparison with other Livebearers due to the one kid a day policy required because of their size.


Ive now about 20 in their species tank (58ish litre). At the moment I won’t be adding any fish to my 120L tank and when they’re gone it’ll probably become a 120L Mozzy tank.

 

[Sgooosh]

You see, it is hard to decrease pH. I recently made a thread related to this matter. The truth is the only safe way of keeping soft water fish is to use an RO filter that would be very expensive. I would stick to hard water fish and SNAILS.

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yeah yeah ill look at endlers, I've kept livebearer for so long now i was ready to move on. Never kept Endlers but guppies.

some good small livebearer options are mosquitofish, least Killi, endler-guppy

 

[fish48]

Mosquito Fish are your friends. Heterandria Formosa.
Worlds smallest livebearer: M-18mm/F-30mm.
Nowhere near as active as Endlers and nowhere near as eyecatching. Just add to hard/very hard water and they’ll be doing the do. Fry numbers are very low in comparison with other Livebearers due to the one kid a day policy required because of their size.


Ive now about 20 in their species tank (58ish litre). At the moment I won’t be adding any fish to my 120L tank and when they’re gone it’ll probably become a 120L Mozzy tank.

H. Formosa is probably still the 7th smallest fish in the world and is the 5th smallest livebearer in the world males 20mm fermales 35mm. but males really get to size.

 

[ClownLurch]

H. Formosa is probably still the 7th smallest fish in the world and is the 5th smallest livebearer in the world males 20mm fermales 35mm. but males really get to size.

What are the other five?

 

[fish48]

heterandra fomosa males 20mm females 35mm,
poeciliopsis prolifica, males 20mm female 30mm,
phallotorynus jucundus ---- 20mm ----- 25mm,
neoheterandria elegans 18mm 20mm,
poecilia minor 17mm 20mm;

 

[Sgooosh]

heterandra fomosa males 20mm females 35mm,
poeciliopsis prolifica, males 20mm female 30mm,
phallotorynus jucundus ---- 20mm ----- 25mm,
neoheterandria elegans 18mm 20mm,
poecilia minor 17mm 20mm;

poeciliopsis prolifica,
for some reason this really sounds like an invasive species LOL
poeciliopsis + prolific
the epic ecosystem takeover duo

 

[ember04]

Mosquito Fish are your friends. Heterandria Formosa.
Worlds smallest livebearer: M-18mm/F-30mm.
Nowhere near as active as Endlers and nowhere near as eyecatching. Just add to hard/very hard water and they’ll be doing the do. Fry numbers are very low in comparison with other Livebearers due to the one kid a day policy required because of their size.


Ive now about 20 in their species tank (58ish litre). At the moment I won’t be adding any fish to my 120L tank and when they’re gone it’ll probably become a 120L Mozzy tank.

yeah ive seen these before, i think there quite intresting but im not usre they have the personality im looking for in a tank inhabitant. they are still really cool for super small tanks