What tank mates do you keep with you apistogammas?

**burpz** · 19th Dec 2009, 22:28

Currently I have neon tetras, cories, sulawesi snails and bumblebee horned snails, spread over 2 tanks. Just partitioned my tank and was thinking of getting some other tank mates.

Saw this fish at Colorful while waiting for my wife... Telmatherina ladigesi.. Are they suitable? Care to share your apisto tankmates?

**SCOPE** · 19th Dec 2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by burpz

Currently I have neon tetras, cories, sulawesi snails and bumblebee horned snails, spread over 2 tanks. Just partitioned my tank and was thinking of getting some other tank mates.

Saw this fish at Colorful while waiting for my wife... Telmatherina ladigesi.. Are they suitable? Care to share your apisto tankmates?

bro, i just worry your Telmatherina Ladigesi will soon be killed by apistogramma when they are in breeding mode.
i still prefer otto, cories or pleco like red lizard L10A etc...these can stand apisto bites.

**burpz** · 19th Dec 2009, 22:59

I see, thus the beauty and cuteness might not last....

**wychay** · 19th Dec 2009, 23:58

I do keep about 50 Telmatherina Ladigesi with my breeding Inka pair. They stay on top and the Inka below in a 3 ft planted tank. I picked up 2 kills due to exposed wound so far ( 4 months ).

You can try if you have the space and places for them to hide.

**wychay** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:03

Ah! My fault - I thought Telmatherina Ladigesi is Celestial Pearl Danio. Wrong fish. Sorry!

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:07

Thanks for the encouragement bro! What I have is a 2ft tank partitioned into 2 x 1ft cubes though... Maybe can give it a go, but in a smaller quantity? Care to share where I can get them? Colorful only has some in the tank swimming, which are not for sale...

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:11

Originally Posted by wychay

Ah! My fault - I thought Telmatherina Ladigesi is Celestial Pearl Danio. Wrong fish. Sorry!

Hahaha... no worries bro... I saw those too...

**SCOPE** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:13

Originally Posted by burpz

Thanks for the encouragement bro! What I have is a 2ft tank partitioned into 2 x 1ft cubes though... Maybe can give it a go, but in a smaller quantity? Care to share where I can get them? Colorful only has some in the tank swimming, which are not for sale...

bro,
that is easily obtainable....you can try the LFS next to NA.....the owner - Richard got quite a lot of these for sale

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:22

Originally Posted by SCOPE

bro,
that is easily obtainable....you can try the LFS next to NA.....the owner - Richard got quite a lot of these for sale

Yup, Richard says he doesn't know when would have.. Colorful is his shop...

**SCOPE** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:26

Originally Posted by burpz

Yup, Richard says he doesn't know when would have.. Colorful is his shop...

haha...the last time i visir him is at lest 2 months away...i saw he got few hundreds in few tanks then.....sorry, my info outdated already

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 00:47

Originally Posted by SCOPE

haha...the last time i visir him is at lest 2 months away...i saw he got few hundreds in few tanks then.....sorry, my info outdated already

Keke.. no worries bro!

**stormhawk** · 20th Dec 2009, 01:46

Telmatherina ladigesi is a good fish to keep with the Apistos, but they might eat up fry. These guys are fast swimmers. It's good to see you have a male and female T. ladigesi in that picture burpz. Good specimens too.

In my 4 foot community/planted tank, I keep my caca trio with Boraras urophthalmoides, 3 x Otocinclus sp. (which one I don't know), 4 x Aphyosemion australe and Corydoras habrosus. So far so good, but I don't expect the caca to spawn anyway. They did spawn once, but so far no new spawnings yet.

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 06:06

Thanks for sharing bro... But that picture not mine though... Still contemplating what to get...

**joopsg** · 20th Dec 2009, 08:43

I kept pencilfish with them, even managed to spawn them.
Guess they need the same environment to spawn.

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 10:12

I bought cherry barbs last time, and thought they were pencil fish...

**MarcJoshua** · 20th Dec 2009, 10:19

Would zebra danios be okay? Or would they wipe out fries once they're free swimming?

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 19:06

Originally Posted by MarcJoshua

Would zebra danios be okay? Or would they wipe out fries once they're free swimming?

Hmm.. Zebra danios are pretty fast fishes too.... Anyone else got experience?

**burpz** · 20th Dec 2009, 19:10

Was at a LFS just now, looking for Telmatherina ladigesi, but discovered what I really looked at at Colorful was Pseudomugil furcatus. Guess these fishes swim slightly slower...

**Ah_ZhaN** · 21st Dec 2009, 10:13

Just get otocinculus will be sufficient. Good against brown algae and won't be burly enough consume your Apistos' eggs if they happen to spawn, and yet sturdy enough to withstand your Apistos' nibbling.

**Jitticus** · 21st Dec 2009, 18:35

I keep the hi-fin gibbiceps together with my Apistogrammas to clear the tank walls so that I can see them all the time. It's a win win situation, as the fish are too fast for the pleco to hurt and their eggs are in the cave, leaving them safe from predation.