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Re: Killie community tanks
Cichlids can also be used as dither fish for an agressive fish like SJO or
Pachypanchax. I have kribs in a 55 with Pachypanchax. They don't fight at
all. They do "show off" a lot and their color has improved a lot as well.
Drummond
>From: schmidtcarney at ecr_net
>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: Re: Killie community tanks
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:43:38 -0500
>
>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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