Apistogramma cacatuoides "orange" updates

So, these guys would eat RCS if kept in a 10 gallon with them, right? What if it was heavily planted? I WANT some lol. Could put them in the 36, too.
 
Yours are lovely. Mine seem to have a hint of yellow with blue flecks around the cheek area. So odd how 2 apistos that are labeled the same can looks so different.
 
msjinkzd said:
they are perfect for a 10-20g VF ;) don't you have one of those kicking around somewhere?
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Yeah I have one or two of those hang'n around. Of course with the electricity rate caps coming off this month I will probably get the hairy eye from the Mrs. if I start another tank.
 
clb2196 said:
So, these guys would eat RCS if kept in a 10 gallon with them, right? What if it was heavily planted? I WANT some lol. Could put them in the 36, too.
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Definitely will seek and destroy shrimp, lol. I had ONE out of hundreds of shrimp survive them. Even the baby apistos will seek out juvie shrimp as soon as they can.

Vicious_Fish said:
Yeah I have one or two of those hang'n around. Of course with the electricity rate caps coming off this month I will probably get the hairy eye from the Mrs. if I start another tank.
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shhh, we won't have talk like that
 
Great looking little fish there... you'll probably be selling them right about when my new tank is (Or should be at least...) ready for stocking :)
 
For the guy asking about RCS with apisto's they wouldn't last a second. I tried to put some shrimp in with my community tank. I dropped about 6 hoping some would make it. My german blue ram and peacock gudgeon took them all down before they could even reach the bottom.

I have kept guppies with RCS and they seem to ignore the shrimp, I have sparkling gourami with them now. Sparkling gourami only grow to like a inch and a half and I am pretty sure they are picking off smaller ones. I think your best bet with cherry shrimp is a neon or cardinal tetra setup or maybe guppies. I have a hillsteam loach in that tank too but I am not 100% sure he isn't picking them off as well. He moves so fast and chases shrimp and eats there food but I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually chasing them.
 
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