Re: a stupid question (tagert vs. dither)

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>]

Mike,

Did you check in the plants to see if the N. espei had eggs/fry? They are more like
Pyrrhulina, rather protective of their breeding sites.

Mike Wise

mjacobs2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> ..this business about dither fish....it is fun to watch the interaction of
> females AND some males "work" the dithers....that's part of the dwarf cichlid
> syndrome......but I'l tell you what folks, some of the old standby dithers are
> really 'snotty' little buggers.......generally I agree with the fish that Sal
> mentioned......but listen to this......4-5 days ago I had a 33 gallon "breeder"
> tank with a lot of plants in it and a trio of "espi" dwarf pencils.......Randy
> Cary has a nifty article about them on his web site.......I dropped in the tank
> about 50-60 SMALL angels.......they were just finning out.....maybe 2-3 weeks
> old......old enough not to worry about some dwarf pencils........I just dropped
> them in and went about my business for an hour or so and came back and saw
> about 20 dead little angels.......my first thought was there was a serious
> water problem until I saw one of the pencils come flying out from behind some
> plants and take a swipe at an angel.......the angel wasn't dead but
> injured....and then the male pencil flew out of the same plant and finished off
> the little angle DOA....it just drifted to the bottom...they weren't eating
> them, just killing them....unbelievable from a dwarf pencil!!!!!
>
> It's a crazy hobby......these calm dwarf pencils went ballistic when the angels
> were put in there......now guys these were angels with fins started, they were
> the size of your little fingernail......not a 3 day old angel!!!
>
> Mike
>
> > Just my 2 cents in using Neon's/ cardinals..They will work as a group to
> > snatch fry (basically when the female chases one the others scoop in and eat
> > the fry).. so I would be careful in using them. I had good luck using dwarf
> > pencilfish, hatchet fish, harlequin Rasboras). good luck
> >
> > sal
> > ..
>
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