Re: [Killietalk] 100 gallon question

[Scott Davis <unclescott at prodigy_net>]

 The big romping, stomping Pachypanchax might most appreciate a heavily planted 100. 

(I need to get more plants into a 29 with a beautiful young trio of spoorenbergi from Syracuse. Some spoorendergi here had been remarkably prolific in the past in a much smaller tank.)

Have raised australe and dageti fry together once and because their growth rates were pretty similar it worked out - that time.

I wonder whether there would be many fry in a multi-species killies tank. Have seen a female gardneri Jos Plateau, in a species tank, accidentally grab one of her fry while making a move on a Daphnia. She checked and spit out the (shaken, but whole) fry and went back to pigging out on the Daphnia.

That may not have happened if there wasn't so much Daphnia available. But one wonders if killies and other fish can recognize their fry, and distinuish them from fry of other killies. I'm sure that many of us have seen situations where after one surviving youngster "stuck" in an aquarium, the adult killies seemed to accept other youngsters.  It has been suggested that this recognition might be by way of some sort of scent or olfactory recognition.

Sometimes different killies will be found in the same body of water but would they be found in slightly different niches?

It would be interesting to see who grew up together and who wouldn't. I think people have had almost all of those killies, that George is considering, leave fry in single species "natural" set-ups. But I'd rather have a bunch of one species than experiment with compatibilities. :)

So many killies, so many neat killie people, so little time.
Join the AKA at http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/content/index.php?id=9.
Archives are at http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/
Modify your subscription at http://www.actwin.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/killietalk