Re: Tankmates for Fp. gardneri

[Chris Browning <fisher25000 at yahoo_com>]

As long as the Harlequins are bigger than the gardneri's mouth, I see no problems. I have my Gardneri with many different kinds of fish, and the only fish they picked on were baby neons, about a cm long. They kept trying to eat them, but that was the only problem. I'm not sure about the lighting, but last time I checked, most kllies don't like bright lights, none of mine do, they stay in the shadows all the time. I would make sure you have some flating plants for them to hide under though.
 Tish KB wrote:Hi, i'm going to get at least 2 pairs, possibly 3
pairs of Fp. gardneri fairly soon, with the intent to
breed them. I'd like to only keep one trio per tank,
but that would leave at least one male, or 2 males and
one female displaced from the killie tank (only have
one extra tank right now, that may change fairly soon)
and i was wondering if i could keep these fish in my
10 g tank. right now there are 5 harlequin rasbora's,
3 ottos and a yoyo loach, pH of about 7 and hardness
of about (gh) 5. it is slightly planted, been working
on that... bright lighting, but i can always take a
bulb out as the plants will be fine without it. Would
the killies be OK in there? Another somewhat viable
option would be to get a 2 g tank for the trio, and
putting the 'leftover' killies in the 5 g i was
planning to but with my betta.. or will he get upset?
thanks very much!

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