Last autumn, I got three A. borellii juveniles, hoping for a trio. They went into a Fluval Roma 125L tank. As the fish matured, it looked as though they were all female, and I lost psych for breeding and made it into a community tank, which included some corys and two Hypancistrus plecos. So not really suitable for breeding the apistos. Recently, I got interested in breeding again and set up a 15g tank as a breeding tank. I caught two of the three females and put them in the tank. They were not impressed and went into hiding. The next day, I picked up a small shoal of five nannostomus marginatus as dithers. One of the apistos has reappeared, three days later, and she's acting fairly normal. Her pal remains in hiding as of this writing. Meanwhile, the third female, who stayed in the community tank, has been frantically glass surfing ever since her two pals moved. I feel bad. I have shifted fish around my tanks many times, and no one has acted quite this traumatised.
I still don't have a male. LFS is trying to source one.
Hopefully my hiding female will recover and reappear.
I'm assuming that 15g is too small for three females + a male? That means the one female has to stay in the community tank. Do they settle as lone of fish of their species, or should I try to aquire a friend? Another borellii? A female apisto of a different species (borellii seem in short supply around here at the moment)?
I still don't have a male. LFS is trying to source one.
Hopefully my hiding female will recover and reappear.
I'm assuming that 15g is too small for three females + a male? That means the one female has to stay in the community tank. Do they settle as lone of fish of their species, or should I try to aquire a friend? Another borellii? A female apisto of a different species (borellii seem in short supply around here at the moment)?
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