The tank has settled & going well.{TW} Few girls holding, couldn't get pic of female yellow, dam shy & the dom male aceii hard to shoot, bugger won't sit still for a second...

Firstly, one of the albino bristlenose...

Female aceii, holding{Ngara}

Dom male Aceii, hard bugger to shoot

A couple of Demasoni's, breeding already too

last pic, dom male demasoni, electric yellow & an aceii

Frenchy

Nice work fishie fishie! looking good dude. Good to see the pics

cheers

Neat pics.

Fish are so damn uncooperative sometimes, considering all the effort we put into making them happy, you'd think they could pose for a couple of photos for you!

:lol:

One of White Calvus{non breeding} with couple of others...

Frenchy

I really like those demasonis.

I use val, its a hardy plant, quick growing. You can end up with bits hanging off filters, but it does a good job.

I also use Anubias{very hardy}, these are attached to logs. Decoration.

I set up this tank with more open spaces as the electric yellow females can be bas...ds towards each other. They are worse to each other than the male is too them. :evil:

The big bush rock & val act as a divider.

The aceii's seem to like the open water more too, so this set up suits them nicely. With a little wood for them too.

The demasoni's being the most agro of the lot will go good, especially being smaller, they can't rule the tank. The holding female resides in the val.

The barnacles are there for the Alto's.

The odd cave, log also act as obstacles...to runaway from over excited males or a place to hide for a tick :roll: :lol:

Frenchy

What you say about female electric yellows is interesting cos I only have 1 female and 3 males but when my tank had major problems and I wiped out half the inhabitants, I found 21 electric yellow fry which are now in a separate tank and I was thinking of adding them back all together when they are big enough. Since I can't sex them accurately, I will have to keep my fingers crossed I don't have too many females.

oooooooooo Mystic, now when did you say you'd give/sell me that tank? lol I call my 4ft (200and a bit lt) my "big" tank. I'm afraid the floor would probably colaps if I managed to fit one of those threw the door, w/out hubby's knowledge.

Multiple females is best as just stated. If you have an open tank, females can't hold a cave up as home & she will defend it, holding especially. Remembering its the dom females that usually breed first. As is 2 or 3 males, that way the dom male has something other than the girls to pick on.

Having them all around the same size is best too.

Java fern is a good hardy plant, slow growing but. :-?

The tank pictured is a 4x2x2 so 400-450lts.

Frenchy

Thanks Mystic, :oops: I am always willing to help & learn from the people here on this wonderful site.

Frenchy