Fwd: pingu guppies -Reply

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Perhaps we should go back further and define what are dither fishes.  I 
suspect that there may be more than one reason for keeping dither fish.  
The upper strata and middle strata is not occupied in most cichlid 
tanks, so appearance and completing the pictorial view of an aquarium is 
a possible need.  Cichlids in general are cautious and many do not 
display themselves unless there are other "dumber" fish which may 
present themselves as the first target of a predator--so to better view 
your apistos behaving naturally(questionable in an aquarium setting) may 
be another reason to have dither fish.  There are surely other reasons 
that I have not thought of.

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