african butterfly fish
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If you have enough surface area, they can be kept in a pair. They will breed in the home aquarium, but are not aggressive to conspecifics of either gender. Provide them each with a good surface shelter, and a very wll covered tank.
Do be careful however. I've always heard that they should be kept singly. They do not tolerate other surface dwellers very well at all and are rather territorial.
"The Butterfly Fish is a semi-aggressive freshwater fish that should be monitored when kept in a community tank. Some specimens can be nippy and aggressive towards other tankmates. In the wild these fish are solitary and keeping several buchholzi together can be unpredictable and may lead to injury, or possibly death."
http://aquadex.info/fish/Pantodon_buchholzi.cfm
"The Butterfly Fish is a semi-aggressive freshwater fish that should be monitored when kept in a community tank. Some specimens can be nippy and aggressive towards other tankmates. In the wild these fish are solitary and keeping several buchholzi together can be unpredictable and may lead to injury, or possibly death."
http://aquadex.info/fish/Pantodon_buchholzi.cfm
I had a pair in a 40, and they never fought. Not saying it doesn't happen--I've just never seen it. I found them to be very peaceful fish, just a voracious eater that would eat anything small enough to fit in it's mouth.
i posted some pics here when my last one finely decided to pose.
unfortunately i added some unpleasant fish to the 55g he was in, and one day during a particularly busy/noisy/messy water change, he jumped and i didnt find him until he was crunchy.
i found them to be slow growing, but i only fed baby crickets once a week. the rest of the time it was small hikari gold pellets.
and they love the floating plants. if they dont have floating plants to hang in, they will likely hide behind the lip of your power filter.
unfortunately i added some unpleasant fish to the 55g he was in, and one day during a particularly busy/noisy/messy water change, he jumped and i didnt find him until he was crunchy.
i found them to be slow growing, but i only fed baby crickets once a week. the rest of the time it was small hikari gold pellets.
and they love the floating plants. if they dont have floating plants to hang in, they will likely hide behind the lip of your power filter.
just put floating hiding spaces on both sides of the tank without too much water movement and one should take each side.