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If you can find them Triportheus hatchetfishes get surprisingly large and are more than fast enough to avoid a cranky Astronotus. Ive also had succes with Chalceus sp.

I'd argue that 's probably not tall enough

I have a group of Hypselecara coryphaenoides, which are pretty uncommon as I understand it.

I would say that may prove to be too cold. I prefer to keep mine 82 or higher

I'd say that its more of a matter of personal taste than anything. Adults don't really shoal much, once they pair up they tend to just hang out with their mate.

Lilith tend to be late-ish bloomers. Expect them to start getting real showy after they hit ~8" or so. They truly are spectacular as adults and it's very cool to see someone dedicating a tank to them!

I've spawned them a few times, lots of big water changes with warm acidic water gets them going. Unfortunately I don't think it'll work out at 8.2 but perhaps someone who knows otherwise will chime in.

Uaru have more interesting breeding behavior, if that's what your end goal is. Both genera are really fun to keep fish in my opinion. Also as mentioned above, both species are excellent candidates to build a really interesting community around.

Matas this size are hard to come by these days, usually only a few available each year. http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=39&de=1150384

I have a group of Anostpmus ternetzi in with my true parrot and severum, it's a peaceful mix thus far and I like the contrast in body shapes

I saw a group of these at the lfs yesterday and nearly bought one, decided against it as I'm not sure how one would do alone. I guess I'll just continue to enjoy yours vicariously! Great job with them

I've cared for eels in systems with shared life support to several tanks, the eels activity never seemed to bother the other fish (apistos and dwarf pikes).

Judging by this and your other thread you have some excellent taste in fish! I am keeping a 55g gallon Rio Negro tank right now but it is certainly not as nice as yours. I recently got a few H. pyrrhonotus myself, they're just a really great fish.

So lately I've been thinking about finally purchasing a Mata this year if I can find one for a decent price. While looking through the archives of this forum for inspiration for the enclosure I noticed a lot of the threads had people arguing that these turtles are poor swimmers and require very...

This is super cool, makes me want to get another one of these

Off the top of my head I've had: Astronotus occelatus Heros notatus Serrasalmus rhombeus Serrasalmus elongatus Chaetobranchus orbicularis Leporinus fasciatus Cichla temensis Phseudoplatystoma faciatium Arapaima gigas Colossoma macropomum Acestrorhynchus falcatus Hoplias malabaricus

That looks awesome, looking forward to seeing it planted

My redfoot has a corner of my closet that's "hers" with a heat pad that a blocked off at first but now she has free run of the house. On days when its nice out I'll bring her outside for a few hours to graze and get some sun. At my old house I'd put her on my back deck on summer days...

I love these guys, what are your plans to color the background?

As long as they're all about the same size it should work out. Clown loaches are very capable of defending themselves.