Re: mixed species tank

[Steph & Dave <caligula@tig.com.au>]

Hi John

I have in a 55 gal tank the following:
Pair of Blue Rams
5 Nannacara aureocephalus
pair A. panduro
male A iniridae
female A. agassizi
4 angels
pair Bristlenose catfish.

This has been quite successful up until last week when my female panduro
died :(  No obvious reason but I doubt it was aggression.  The fish use
all the swimming space as well as the nooks and crannies.  The rams and
the nannacara have both spawned but no fry have been raised - Im not
really expecting it.  recently I added 3 small 1.5cm? aggie fry from
another tank, and they have been fine so far as well. I was a bit
worried about the large angel eating them.

The most aggressive fish is the female Blue Ram, the rest limit them
selves to a little bit of chasing and the odd gill flaring.  The
Nannacara chase each other a lot but dont bother the other fish.

Steph

John Wubbolt wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone
> I've got a question for anyone.   I have an empty 55 gallon tank at the
> moment and wanted to set it up heavily planted with lots of natural
> caves out of rocks and driftwood.   What I wanted to do was put some
> small tetras or killies in there along with a few different species of
> apistos.   Has anyone ever had any luck with a non breeding community
> tank of apistos without having major casualties due to males fighting
> over territory.    I thought maybe a nice pair of Cacatuoides, a pair or
> trio of Aggies and my group of Cruzis.   Plus maybe some small corys and
> of course my tetra and killies.   I don't care if the fish in there
> never spawn or not.
> 
> Now would I be better off just putting males in there with no females or
> is a 55 big enough to house a couple of pairs or trios without WWWlll
> breaking out?   Any suggestions would be nice.  Other wise I'm going to
> do something stupid like set up another Victorian Hap breeding tank,
> Hiss hiss hiss, I know, africans.   Or even put some dinner plates I
> mean discus in there.
> 
> John
> 
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