Originally Posted by flyin-lowe

Do you have much problem keeping the cardinals alive? Also are you using tap/well water or RO water? The reason I ask is that yesterday I was in a lfs (one of the few I tend to trust) and one of the salesmen (one Ive never met before) told me that in general the water in Indiana is too hard to keep cardinals. He said without RO water that they won't make it more then a couple weeks. I thought this was a pretty bold statement since he doesn't know how hard my water is (I don't even know). He said the neons would be a little better. I told him I was after cardinals because I planned to stock some angels and they would get bigger. He said eventually the angels will eat the cardinals or the neons so I might as well get the neons since they stand a better chance of surviving the hard water. Do you do anything special for your's?
PS I finally got my 120g going and there are photos in the gallery. I used seeded media and ammonia and it cycled in about 10 days. Yesterday I added 9 corries and I have 4 small albino BN pleco's coming at the end of this week to help with some of the algae that started to grow already.