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2018年10月1日—20LaretosmalltokeepApistosinit.IthinkitspossibletobreedApistogrammaina40*20cmtankbutiwouldrecommendremovingthemale ...

I, like Happyfins, dont recommend breeding apistos in a 5.5. Its just too small for most territorial cichlids like apistos. Having said that, does anyone remember Fontaine Weyman from Atlanta? If you do you must have collected pterodactyl eggs for breakfast like me! Anyway Fontaine supplied most of the domestic raised apistos back in the 60s & 70s. He had some of the ugliest A. borellii (then A. reitzigi) and A. cacatuoides (then thought to be A. borellii), pale & almost no color, but thats what was available. Anyway Fontaine did most of his breeding in 5.5 gallon tanks. Of course he removed the males once the females had fry. Still, he lost fish regularly to territorial aggression and was continually looking to hobbyists to whom he sold his fish to return them to resupply his stock. About the only apisto I would recommend for a 5.5 is A. wapisana, a behaviorally different, small (1½"/3.5cm) - and not particularly p...