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RE: Killie community tanks
Catherine,
I had 3 Het Formosa in the tank with the pair of poliaki to no avail. Maybe
the dither patterns weren't pronounced enough to be effective, I don't know.
On a happier note I found (after a serious indepth cleaning) the female to
the reverse trio of poliaki I got from Tony Terceira hiding under a dense
clump of java moss and many more fry than first noted.
Bill
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From: schmidtcarney at ecr_net [mailto:schmidtcarney at ecr_net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:44 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: Killie community tanks
KI>I myself have a whole pack (6 males, 2 females) of Aphyo. striatum with a
KI>handful of Cory. aeneus without incident. However, not a single egg out
of
KI>that one. I've seen the cory's browsing on the mops from time to time
KI>which bears out Wright's observation that cories are pretty good egg
KI>predators. Of course, my community tanks are all planted, which means
MTSs
KI>which means no eggs. The STRIs are now old enough to breed so I'm going
to
KI>move the pairs off to a separate breeding tank. I think in general
that's
KI>going to be my strategy.
I tend to use the same sort of stratefy. I use the community tanks for
general maintenance and conditioning of the fish, then pull the adults
into a separate container (usually a gallon pail, with a tight lid) with
some mops for breeding. No problems with snails that way, and I can find
the eggs easilty. After breeding, the adults go back to the main tank. I
find that the fish condition well in these planted community tanks as
long as they are not with overly aggressive fish....
KI>I've actually have more troubles with aggression between killies than
KI>between killies and anything else.
GAR can be pretty tough on each other sometimes. My SJO Dwarf Reds
killed each other off, so I plan to try them in a bigger tank (29? 45?)
when I start with them again. Pachypanchax sakaramyi can be pretty
aggressive to each other, too, from what other GCKA members tell me.
Bill Ruyle had a pair of A. poliaki Bolifamba and the male was
exceedingly hostile to the female, even when the pair was in a well
planted 5 1/2.
One thing the might help this aggression, and I haven't tried yet, might
be the addition of "dither fish" as are used with some cichlids. The
"old hands" out there will probably be able to tell us if this works.
Talk to you later.
Catherine
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