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Also lets be very clear I’m not going out of my to breed Apistos but if you set the tank up to their liking they will spawn regularly without much encouragement. Again in my experience.
There’s bluster & then there’s aggression. Give Apistos a tank where they can setup shop and feel “safe” for example a cave in the middle of sight breaks and in my experience you may get a blustery display but next to no actual aggressive chasing.
I’ve bred Nijsseni, Hongsloi, Macmasteri & Caucatoides successfully with small tetras/pencilfish as dithers as well as Corys in planted tanks as small as 20Ls. As long as you give them someplace to set up shop they’ll be fine. I’ve also had success with the same setup with many other dwarf cichlids.
Any Apisto would work well in a MegaFlex but assuming you want a colorful centerpiece you can’t go wrong with Caucatoides, Hongsloi, or Macmasteri plus they’re generally easy to find. Pencilfish are great dithers as their mouths are too small to eat fry and they stay mostly in the top 1/3 of the...
The females are the instigators of the breeding behavior. They dance in front of him but he’s a little slow on the uptake. They’re also young so he’ll catch on.
I’ve got a trio of RedNecks in a planted 20L with caves & huts for them to use on a fine gravel substrate. There’s Pencilfish & Ruby Tetras as dithers along as Melini Corys. The tetras are too small to be a threat and keep to the top 1/3 of the tank but give Apistos confidence to swim around...
I successfully keep all my Apistos in 20 gallon longs with small Tetras, Pencilfish, Ottos, and wait for it Corys. I had and continue to have Apisto fry grow to sellable size in these tanks. I currently have Nijsseni and Hongsloi with large groups of fry.
All my Apistos are in 20Ls with at least trios in them with no real aggression issues. This is because the tanks all have multiple line of sight breaks which includes plants, wood, rock work and Apisto caves. I also keep them with Corys , Ottos, and Tetras/Pencilfish so there’s other fish in the...