Natural History & Care Guide Ptychochromis grandidieri. Spawning Eastern Madagascar Gold Cichlids
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Today we’re taking a look at the Ptychochromis grandidieri or East Coast Malagasy Gold Cichlid.
So Here we have a truly remarkable fish. This is a fish found only in the rivers and coastal estuaries of central madagascar. Not only is this fish said to be a predominantly brackish fish, but all of the current reports I could find, said this fish only spawns in brackish waters. Interestingly, this is also the only fish within the entire Genus- that is brackish or salt tolerant at all.
SO the WHOLE reason we are getting to learn about this increasingly rare and charming cichlid- is because my buddy, Dan (the owner of the fish store, in Seattle - managed to spawn this pair in our local tap water which has a ph of 6.8 and a tds of 10 to 30ppm... so, not hard water, not alkaline and certainly not Brackish.
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