kukerdan said:alot of people are very strict on water paremeters, and mixing this fish with that one, and you cant do this or that, but it always seems that these are the people having problems with fish deisese, fighting, stress etc. so dont get to converned, 7.0 is fine, thats where mine is, and i dont have a single shy, stressed, or injured fish
Ok...so apparently try to copy a your fish's natural habitat is wrong...I do eventually believe you will have problems but then again you apparently do not care what anyone thinks. Your fish many not live as long as
For anyone else that will listen : It is a good idea to to try and get a fish as close to its natural habitat as possible.
Just because someone doesn't have problems right at this moment does not mean they will not in the future and I would pick my advice according to this fact.
Good luck with the chiclids