My wife is a school teacher and she is in a similar situation as the one you described. I have set up two ten gallon aquariums for her that are very low maintenance. The dwarf tank has a pair of A.borelli. They spawn readily in ordinary tap water ie: pH 7.5, DH 18. My wife feeds them on decapsalated brine shrimp and she has a little group of fry! I must caution that she does do weekly water changes and unless you will be able to do regular maintenance on the tank you may want to shy away from dwarfs. The other tank has a school of cory cats and a shoal of Cardinal Tetra's and is a really cool tank because of all the activity. The cory/Cardinal tank requires less maintance as the fish are a bit hardier so that may be your best bet. Good luck on your project. ===== David Sanchez Orlando, FL http://www.mindspring.com/~barbax barbax@mindspring.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"!