Newbie here - to Apistos anyway!

[ruby2509]

HI folks, I'm new here! Next year I ma planning to breed some Apistos, but for now I'll just keep them in my smallest tank, a 70L. I hope to learn lots!

My tanks:
70L Guppy (getting rid of the guppies and moving the glass catfish)
240L Community (with two recently bought Discus!)

Blair

 

[apistoireland]

Hi Blair,
you should have no problem keeping most apisto species in a 70 l tank, however, breeding them in there is a different matter.
First of all you will probably have to remover the male from the tank or the female will do serius damage to him. Second, the young will need a tank to grow on and 70 l won't be big enough by a long shot.
I grow my young rams on in one of my 300 l dicus tanks. Works pretty well. They love the shrimp/mussle mix I feed my dicus and grow pretty fast.
Hope this helps