Soft-water South American
80 × 35 × 40 cm · 112 l
A biotope-flavoured tank with a real centrepiece. Borelli's is the dwarf cichlid to start with: it stays under 7 cm, tolerates a wider temperature range than its cousins, and does not need the tank to itself.
What the engine says
Using about 14% of the tank's bioload capacity, on weekly 25% water changes. Engine 0.1.2.
The water this tank needs
- Temperature
- 23–28 °C
- pH
- 6–6.5
- Hardness (GH)
- 2–8 °dH
This is the overlap of every species in it — the narrower it is, the less room you have to drift. Check it against your tap before you buy anything: tap water tool
The stocking
Why it works
Read the water window before anything else — pH 6–6.5 and GH 2–8 is genuinely soft, which Lithuanian tap water is not. This is an RO tank, or a tank for somebody on a well with soft water. Everything else here is generous: the cardinals are unbothered by the cichlid, the sterbai handle warmth better than most corys, and a pair of borelli's will spawn in a flowerpot without anybody intervening.
Make it yours
Opens in the planner with the tank and every fish already in place. Change the numbers, swap a species, add your tap water — the verdict updates as you go.
Open this tank in the planner