Re: Fwd: nannacara taenia

[Frauley/Elson <fraulels@minet.ca>]

Ed Pon wrote:
> 
> Gary says:
> >they seem to spend a lot of time fighting if kept in groups. Kept as
> >pairs or trios, their behaviour changes and they calm down. Then, they seem
> easy to spawn.
> 
> Gary--Very interesting about the placement of the slate.  What size tank?
> Substrate?  Heavily planted, lightly planted, or none? The nanacara taenia that
> I have were kind of shy but came out at feeding in a community tank.  They seem
> to appear a lot less frequently since the addition of 6 d. filamentosa.  The
> filamentosas do not appear to be real aggressive--but then, I'm not constantly
> watching to see what activity is occurring.  Which brings another question to
> mind; are you using any dither fish or any other tank mates  with your breeding
> N. taenia?
> 
Hi Ed,
	They've spawned in a 23 gallon, 30 inch with a power filter,
cryptocoryne sp carpetting the bottom and sandy gravel. There were also
oak leaves in there. They shared the space with P taeniatus Moliwe, then
Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis. The 'dithers" were Aplocheilicthys
macropthalmus - lampeyes. Yeah, no habitat tank there, just some
nanacara lost in West Africa.
	I had to steal the eggs there, because of the traffic.
	I took my breeders and put them into a 10 gallon, sand bottom, no
plants but lots of slatework. It had a corner, slow bubble filter, with
peat and a product called Metasorb. There, they've raised their broods
with no problem. The only company's some juvenile Aplocheilicthys sp,
but this time, they killed a few when they spawned.
	Gary 
	Temp's about 24-25C.