I've attempted this twice now. I had thought that a divided pair couldn't possibly lay fertilized eggs. somehow they "got together" under the divider and I wound up with a zillion babies. I transferred them into a 20 gallon with a sponge filter then to a 100 gallon. They got large enough that they began fighting. I sold or gave away many that had showed early color and many had also died. I had to start housing some in their own ten gallon tanks as they got aggressive. I had tanks, buckets, anything that would hold water all over the house with extension cords,etc. I ended up keeping two. (One of them is now my sick patient.) What a nightmare. I'll never try to mate another pair.
