Has anyone kept Poecilocharax weitzmani ?

[anewbie]

Has anyone kept Poecilocharax weitzmani and if so any comments on them - also do they hang high or low and show a lot of movement or mostly idle ?

[ok 5 minute of reading and they love the bottom and guard their frys so they can eat them when they start swimming]. Still any comment from people who actually kept them ?

 

[martin_c]

Has anyone kept Poecilocharax weitzmani and if so any comments on them - also do they hang high or low and show a lot of movement or mostly idle ?

I've never had them. But one thing that struck me when i saw them in wild footage on youtube some time ago is that compared to all other fish in the video they didn't move at all.

 

[MacZ]

I had the fortune to care for a tank with that species for a month, but that was just while the owner was on a business trip. Not much to report: They were mostly hiding and what I saw in terms of behaviour seemed a lot like a tetra adopting the lifestyle of a dwarf cichlid, but still distinct. E.g. the males displaying looked like a mix of both: The colour changed as much as in dwarf cichlids, but the movements looked a lot like phantom tetras displaying.