Re: Apistos for beginner - pair or harem?

["Brian Gebbie" <bgebbie@pcez.com>]

I have two male and three female A. cacatuoides in a heavily planted 29
gallon tank and they all get along fine.

-brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristo K M Kulju" <kulju@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Apistos for beginner - pair or harem?


>
> Hello!
>
> I have 140 l (= ~ 37 gallons) well planted community tank (ph ~ 6.7-7, NO2
> 0ppm NO3<15ppm) with black neon tetras, small corys (C. similis), SAEs
> and Ancistrus sp. I'm planning to get some apistos, but I'm a little
> confused about polygamous nature of these fish. I was told by many
> hobbyists that you _have to_ have many females per male, otherwise the
> male will harass the female to death. But after reading this mailing list
> and The Krib archives I got the impression that people do keep apistos
> also in pairs.
>
> So, what would be suitable setup for my tank (1M + 1F / 1M + 2-3F / 2M +
> 2F)? Is this very species specific? Species I have been considering
> (limited mostly by availability here in Finland): A. agassizii, A.
> borelli, A. cacatuoides, A. macmasteri, A. nijsseni, A. steindachneri.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Kristo
>
>
>
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