Re: Blue Gularis in the community tank

["Jason Owens" <jasonvowens at hotmail_com>]

Thanks everyone for the responses.  The consensus seems to be that your 
normal, healthy Blue Gularis tends to eat stuff that fits in his/her 
mouth...but if you place them in the community tank while very small and 
feed them well, there's a half-decent chance they may grow up not 
considering every tank mate as food.  As usual, one of those damn calculated 
risks.

My best guess would be that gularis, if raised together from a young age, 
would probably do okay with Apistogrammas - simply because Apistos can hold 
their own in a fight and would be a bit of a mouthful for anything other 
than a fully mature male Gularis.  The problem would be that introducing any 
other fish (and one of the great things about Apistos is that you CAN keep 
other fish with them) would be problematic.  Maybe your Gularis decides that 
nice school of cardinals you just added are great new neighbors...maybe he 
decides they're lunch.  One thing seems certain: don't mix fully grown 
Gularis with new smaller fish.  If they're going to get along, it will only 
be because the Gularis has grown up in a community tank and has learned it's 
easier waiting to be fed by a human than chasing his tankmates around.

For now I'll probably hold off on the idea.  If there is a very small pair 
of Gularis at the LFS, however, I could give it a shot in the next few 
months.  In the end, like so many killies, it probably comes down to the 
individual fish.  After all, I've had male gardneri who tolerate community 
tankmates of just about every shape and size and I've had other gardneri 
who, well, just haven't been very nice to anybody...


>From: dominic <apisto at planeteer_com>
>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: Re: Blue Gularis in the community tank
>Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 18:51:13 -0600
>
>I've got a trio of Gularis in a 20 gallon tank with a trio of cruzi variant
>apistos. The tank is stuffed with java moss and fern. The water is quite 
>soft,
>and the surface is covered with salvinia and duckweed.
>
>One of my female apistos is currently escorting a clutch of 25 or so fry, 
>and
>chasing the Gularis off her patch. I've not seen any attempt by the gularis 
>to
>chase her fry, and they're in about week 3 of free swimming now.
>
>dominic
>
>Jason Owens wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on keeping Blue Gularis in an 
>Amazon
> > tank with an Apistogramma pair, some Rams, and several smaller killi 
>species
> > (gardneri, golden wonder, e. chaperi).  The tank is a planted 46-gallon,
> > with soft/acidic water.  I've heard very mixed things about Blue Gularis 
>in
> > terms of behavior and compatability.  Some say they're quite aggressive.
> > Others say not so.  Who to believe?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
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