My suggestions for your tank would be Goyder River Trifasciatas, almost any
PNG Rainbow (especially the lacustrine species), Blackmasts and Pacific
Blue-eyes.
IMO that is not the ideal water for Werneri ( but I'm sure there will be
others on the list that have kept them well in water such as yours.
Cheers
Bruce Hansen
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> From: StephenBou at aol.com
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: [RML] Rainbows and plants in hard water
> Date: Tuesday, 6 May 1997 12:52
>
> I had the idea of a planted tank in hard (~250 ppm, pH ~8.2) water with
> rainbows. This tank would have a homemade CO2 injector but no heated
> substrate, and would be 55 gallons.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for plants/fish in this setup? I was
> considering I. werneri, but I can't find my Allen book to tell me if this
> fish does OK in this water.
>