How many male and female borelli would you recommend for a 40B ?

[anewbie]

How many male and female borelli would you recommend for a 40B? The aquarium has dense plantings. There is an old male nannacara amolae in the tank but he is pretty docile and hasn't bother the male borelli or female in the tank; he spends all day hanging out side the bn's cave waiting for frys. This is the aquarium:

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I ahve one male and one female borelli in there - i was thinking of adding a second male and 2 or 3 more females but don't want them to be rabid at each other.
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That is an older picture - most of the mystery snails have been removed.

 

[yukondog]

Are you looking to breed them, or just have a community tank with them in it?

 

[anewbie]

Are you looking to breed them, or just have a community tank with them in it?

A bit of both; sort of opportunity breeding. The tank has other fishes so breeding isn't optimal but there is such dense hiding places that they should find some quasi success breeding; if they do. I just don't want them to be overly aggressive towards each other if I add more.

 

[mrjbacon]

You could do a pair of another species with different finnage, like A. agassizii or A. diplotaenia. A. agassizii may be mean to each other if you just get a pair but your tank looks like it has enough hiding places that it might not be an issue.

 

[anewbie]

You could do a pair of another species with different finnage, like A. agassizii or A. diplotaenia. A. agassizii may be mean to each other if you just get a pair but your tank looks like it has enough hiding places that it might not be an issue.

I'd be concern that if breeding the agassil being much larger than the borelli would kill them. Even if they are not overly aggressive; if they breed the male will defend the territory and the female the frys.