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

Bob sais:
>RIck-
>I am keeping A cacatuoides with neons, corys, and otocinclus.  Hatchets 
work
>good also, and occupy the top couple of inches of the tank while the 
Apistos
>will stay near the bottom.  I have also used Serpae tetras and 
silver-tip
>tetras.  Be sure to keep tetras and hatchets in a school, so they can 
shoal
>together.
I am surprised that I seldom hear pencilfish mentioned as ideal 
tankmates for apistos.  They are small, have very tiny mouths, and are 
totally unagressive.  One of my favorite dithers is feeder guppies.  It 
looks like it takes the feeder guppies a couple of generations to adapt 
to the really low ph.  Some other people mentioned heterandia formosa--I 
haven't tried them out but I am slowly adapting some to lower ph levels 
currently. A really hardy tetra which I am keeping with apistos is the 
black neon tetra.  I have kept zebra danios with apistos but I have some 
concern that they may be a bit fast and get some of the fry.

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