[Killietalk] aplocheilus lineatus

[Kate Breimayer <kate at munat_com>]

One of my male A. lineatus is in a 45 community tank where he tried to 
fight a full grown rainbowfish. The rainbowfish was bigger than him, and 
it lost. So they are sometimes bad. He doesn't hurt the smaller fish, 
tetras, raspboras, and smaller killies are all fine. Maybe he has the 
small dog syndrome-seems like small dogs only want to fight really big 
dogs, which can eat them whole. They are pretty good at jumping out so 
keep their tank covered, and my parent fish didn't really look that 
great til I started feeding them other fish. I had some bettas with 
crooked spines to cull, they were still pretty small but I fed one to 
each parent every other day and they became much fuller figured, more 
colorful, and active. They had been fed on live blackworms and prepared 
or frozen foods before, and thought they looked fine but feeding them 
fry made them into a totally new fish. When I stopped feeding the bettas 
they did not lose their new quality. I have also heard of feeding them 
cut up earthworms. Haven't tried it though. If they don't catch the food 
before it gets to the bottom third of the tank you have to retrieve it 
and retrieving cut up worms sounds unpleasant.
Kate


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