Strange Bedfellows...

["Norm Ruebsamen" <smstacey at execpc_com>]

Without realizing it, I had 20 very small Biv. Funge fry growing up in a
tank with some 5" Fp. Fallax Malende. This was a Fallax Malende breeding set
up. I had placed a pair of Biv Funge in with them to grow out as show fish.
Today, while feeding daphnia I noticed the 1/4" Funge fry. One grabbed a
daphnia but it was way too large to eat. While he sat there hanging on to it
a 5" Malende male swam out of the weeds and grabbed the daphnia (not the fry
amazingly!). For a split second they were eye to eye until the Funge fry let
go and raced for the weeds. I searched for more fry and found over 20 small
Funge in the tank. If you have ever seen an adult Fallax Malende eat you
would have to wonder how anything that resembles food could survive in the
same tank. Especially when the Malende are 20 times their size. What I found
most interesting is that I had two successful breeding set ups going
simultaneously. The Biv Funge adults were not eating the Malende eggs that I
collect from the gravel, and the Malende were not bothering new hatched
Funge fry.

I have also bred Epiplatys Lamottei and Biv Funge together in a planted tank
with good success. I am curious to know if others have had success with
breeding more than one species in a natural set up and what those species
were.

See you at the convention!
Norm

Fishlist: http://www.execpc.com/~smstacey
Norm Ruebsamen and Susan Stacey
in Somers, Wisconsin
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