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The tank is small: 80 length, 27 on the sizes/32 in the middle width, 40 high (cm). I have removed some of the wood, so now it looks like in the picture above (plus some vallisneria americana), there are some hiding places but just didn't work with both species.
Just a piece of a river…
Eheim tank 240 l
JBL Amazon decor
Fine white sand
JBL e901 Greenline external filter (full with seachem matrix, sera siporax, jbl micromec)
Eheim internal filter, will be replaced in the next days with Eheim 2075 external filter (full with sera siporax, jbl micromec...
Few changes: add some vallisneria americana and hygrophila angustifolia. Remove the agassizi pair and replace it with one macmasteri "red neck" pair and 8 nannostomus marginatus.
Too much aggression from agassizi, so I remove them and left the macmasteri pair. I have not remove the agassizi and redecorate the tank before reintroduce the pairs, but keeping the pairs separately seems to be the best option.
Don't use assassin snails if you want to breed them, in the same time. You can use assassins, they are the best in eating snails, but there is a chance you can't find all of them when you want to remove them (some get bury in the sand for some time).
Today I will receive the macmasteri pair and hope for the best between them and agassizi pair. If is necessary I'll try to find some floating pipe. Thanks.
I will try to do anything to make it work. The bad news for the next arrivals (macmasteri pair) is that the agassizi female has just spawned a day ago so I expect extra agression from them.
I'm thinking to keep two pairs, one agassizi and one macmasteri in 100 l tank. I don't have a empty tank for the second, the only solution for them to be alone is a 25 l tank, wich is very little.
Can this setup work fine?
Is about this tank (this is how it looks now):
I don't know the collecting place, the only information I have is that the fish was imported from Asia. Maybe when the fish will be adult we can determine the type.
I kept mine in a 100l tank for 2 weeks, because the female started to chase the fry. That happens with the male in the tank. If you add the male and your female is preparing for the next batch, you will need to remove the fry or the pair because your breeding tank is to small for all, no matter...
What is the best option for keeping 2 species (one pair or 1m+2f from each) into a 200 l tank, between cacatuoides, agassizi and macmasteri?
If the most aggressive are agassizi, the best option will be cacatuoides with macmasteri?
Thanks.
I know that has nothing to do with BBS, sorry. Yesterday I had to introduce the fish so for the moment I will leave the hydra and see what happens... Thanks.