Re: double-duty dither

[coenga@infonie.fr (Dujardin Colin)]

>ok, this may sound crass, but i'm looking for the perfect 3D species
>here. my schedule/lifestyle precludes raising BS as live food. as it's
>now into late fall, soon to be winter, mosquito larvae and daphnia are
>out as locally obtainable supplements.
>
>i just had a brainstorm (beginner's luck). if i could find a prolific
>livebearer to use as a dither fish, i'd have it made. unfortunately,
>most common livebearers prefer harder, more alkaline water than my
>apisto tanks (low 6's).
>
>has anyone had any luck keeping guppies, swordtails, etc. along with
>their apistos?


>I keep a very nice strain of all yellow guppies in my 30 breeder tanks
>with
>my pelvicachromis and nanochromis. The water is never above 6.5 pH.
>They have 100s of fry in the floating plants.

>MikeD

Hi

        I bought a few guppies to act as dithers and feeders producers
in my 45 tank for my Pelvicachromis taeniatus.
        Guppies are good dither fish, good fry producers, but
unfortunately not feeders producers for the P taeniatus. The Taeniatus
live near the ground, the guppy fry live in the riccia at the upper
level. My fishes are well fed, so i'm now in a guppy plague, and the
guppies are competing with every body for food. So; i'm not sure that
they are a good choice, unless you have a few big cichlids in another
tank needing living fishes for sport food.
        Better i think are danios. Mine are spawning in the tank, and i
saved  half a dozain of them in the third part of my filter. So the
danios spawned and the fry have been eaten possibly by the taeniatus.
BTW, the zebras are doing a good job as dithers, making the taeniatus'
head spinning when time to eat.
        I'm waiting to see them with fry and chasing the zebras.

Colin


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