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    Killifish in Planted Tank

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    Hi,

    I would like to seek for advise regarding the above mentioned.

    Can I keep only 1 species of killies in a 2ft tank or am I able to mix with others? My purpose is not to breed them, but to see a community of killies in a planted tank.

    I inherited 6 beautiful Asutrales from Mr Ron.

    Please don't flare if I said anything wrong. I am still quite new to these beautiful fishes

    Regards
    Nicholas Poey

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    Sometimes it is hard to tell which species females may belong to, so we don't make a habit of it. Similar young males may also fight if they have females to court.

    OTOH, I have kept several species together in a thickly-planted tank with little dissention. I used to have a 20G tank that got all my older single, widowed killifish and they made a rather pretty display. There were males and females of at least 5 or 6 species at any one time, and they got along very well.

    On the basis of that experience, I'd say go for it, as long as you don't try to pull females from that tank for future breeding if some are of similar species or different collection locations of the same species. Also don't let any babies that appear in that tank get back out into the hobby.

    Much of the reason we use species tanks is the danger of hybrids when we have almost 800 known killifish species, many looking much alike. Hybrids introduce infertility and most of the features erroneously attributed to "inbreeding."

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    With australe you can keep:
    • Aphyosemion striatum
      Chromaphyosemion sp.


    Epiplatys species tend to dominate Aphyosemion and don't make for a good community. The Chromaphyosemion species would be the best as the females are easy to tell apart. Many of the Lamp-eyes would also work well.

    For algae eaters your shrimp's days are numberred. I would revert back to a nice Ancistrus.

    tt4n

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