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- From: oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev)
- Subject: Re: Recommendation on cold water fish
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.083132.13523@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:31:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.221418.11067@rdg.dec.com> jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria) writes:
- >First of all, I don't particularly appreciate your tone of voice. (or fingers).
-
- Don't over-react. The over-80 char long lines were not yours but the came
- froim the text you included. Still, there is no need to get overly annoyed.
- Everyone makes mistakes.
-
- >I wouldn't because I am under the impression that white clouds are relatively
- >sensitive fish that require a good deal of oxygen and very clean water. The
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- They are a rather tough cold water fish, so they will do well in a small,
- unheated tank.
-
- >I choose labyrinth fish over non-lab fish because they have an additional
- >breathing mechanism, and are also more capable of handling (in general) poor
- >water conditions because they hail from mucky, acidic, stagnant waters, for the
- >most part.
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- The only cold-tolerant labyrinth fish that I can think of are the Paradise
- fish, which get rather large (4") and are very pugnatious. Croaking
- gouramis (Trichopsis vittata) had naturalized in South Florida, while the
- water temperatures in S. Florida rarely drop below 68F, the fish *may* do OK
- in an unheated indoor tank. These fish get to be 2.5" long, so a pair of
- them may be too much for a 2.5 gal tank.
-
- A pair of white clouds or a pair of smallish killies are probably the best
- choice for a 2.5 gal tank.
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