Subject: Wanted: Species Suggestions for West African Community Tank
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:37:36 -0500
From: "Kenneth Combs" <KCombs at mergerx_net>
I just did my 1st post here inquiring about Aplocheilichthys
Spilauchen, I bought these fish before positively ID'ing them, so
they may be unsuitable for my 55gal community tank. I would like to
know which killies if any would "fit" this tank: Alestes.sp, Yellow
Congos, 2 Syndontis.sp, Kribs. The tank is heavily planted (Java
Fern, Java moss, Anubias) and bacterially mature (2X penguin 330's
plus a Duetto 50 for CO2 injection, peat filtered Cleveland tap,
7.2, driftwood, etc, etc). I got 35 plus yrs of fish keeping but
ZERO experience with killies (outside of flagfish, and
FP.Gardineri) <excuse the spelling>, (I trolled the net for HOURS,
but I'm getting conflicting info: I'm favoring Fp. Sjoestedi, but
I'm at a loss as how to get some or the appropriate sex ratio &
numbers (or if this is a good fish for this tank). Any suggestions
appreciated. Regards, Ken