Fwd: Discus and Apistos

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

Andy wrote:
>I am planning a 55 gallon planted tank with Apistos and a pair of 
Discus and
>some small tetras.  Any suggestions as to what type of apistos would be 
great.
>I'm thinking Borelli.  Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I'd like, 
of
>course, both the Discus and the Apistos to spawn in this tank.
>

I've kept MacMasteri with adult wild green discus successfully. By 
successfully, I mean that all the MacMasteri survived and grew to adult 
size.  I never detected a spawn, although I never actually looked for 
it.  I'd be skeptical that any apisto can defend it's brood against 
grown discus because of the size disparity between apistos and discus.  

If you're going to keep apistos with discus, you should probably go with 
the larger varieties like MacMasteri or rotpunkt.  Borelli reach a much 
smaller adult size than the MacMasteri.

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