Re: Planning ahead for shipping weather :-)

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Bill,

Your quite correct about keeping mixed apisto species. Keep species from different complexes, otherwise they may cross-breed. A. panduro & A. nijsseni can be pretty rough on other species and a 30 gallon long tank can be controlled by a single pair if not aquascaped properly. If I were going to mix another species with these, I'd choose something that grows large like A. steindachneri, A. sp. Rotpunkt, or a
macmasteri-group species.

Mike Wise

William Vannerson wrote:

> I have a 30 gallon set up waiting for the shipping season to begin!  I currently have 8 young Procatopus aberrans DKG/red swimming happily in the current from a power head on the UGF lift tube.  Two of them are just starting to "blue" out as they say.
>
> I was hoping to find a source of A. nijsseni or A. Panduro.  I'd like to hear from anyone keeping these strains that may have fish available this spring.
>
> Also, I notice some folks will mix different Apisto species in the same tank.  I've never done that as I usually only kept one species at a time.  Are there any rules or guidelines to doing this?  I would assume that you'd want fish from different complexes to avoid potential cross breeding, or is that not a problem.  What, if any, species would be suitable tank mates for either A. nijsseni or A. Panduro.
>
> Bill Vannerson
> McHenry, IL
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/william_vannerson
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