Re: pandurini's

["Greg Idemoto" <gidemoto@hotmail.com>]

Acutally, it's a lot worse than that. I have them in a 5.5 gallon tank 
temporarily as a quarantine tank. It is, however, heavily planted with java 
fern so they do have places to hide. They will eventually be moved to a 40G 
long, either one pair or both. Currently have a pair of Veijita's in there. 
I think 6 fish in the 40L might be too much though, becuase although it has 
lots of plants, there aren';t many hiding places.

How big do the pandurini's get?


> From: BigJohnW@webtv.net (John Wubbolt)
> Reply-To: apisto@v2.listbox.com
> To: apisto@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: Re: pandurini's
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:31:50 -0500 (EST)
>
> Hello Greg
>
> If you plan on keeping all 4 fish in that same 10 gallon tank, you're
> going to have trouble.   If you really want to do justice to those fish,
> place a single pair in a 10 gallon tank... anymore then that and you are
> going to have casualties.   i have kept this species and have found that
> it does best in pairs... they dont seem to tolerate other fish of the
> same species in the same tank once a pair has formed.
>
> Also, even in a heavily planted tank, a single pair needs several
> different hiding caves.  I have always placed at least 4 different
> flower pots in my apisto tanks.   This way it gives the pair a choice as
> to where they want to spawn.  Even a good mated pair always seems to
> choose a different spot to spawn with each different spawning.
>
> A good varied diet will condition your fish to get them ready for
> spawning.   Live foods works best, daphnia, black worms, brine shrimp,
> then i go with frozen blood worms, i also use Tetra Color bits and good
> flake foods with my apistos.
>
> Good luck with your fish.
>
> Tundra Johnny
>
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