Well I agree with santoury about the aggressiveness of the loisellei. Mine is very small and chases his tankmates around, including a devil, a festae, and larger convict. I strongly suggest that you not put them in a community tank if you want to breed them.
new fish due tommorow, tank mates??
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well they came in yesterday, what beauties, ill get some pics up asap, of course my festae started in immediately so I seperated them, just the pair in there for now, might try again, maybe something less aggressive than my festae?????
I would imagine that since your festae had been in the tank for some time before you introduced the loisellei, he had his territory well established. He probably looked at the new pair like, "who the ef are you? this is my effin tank!" Your best bet for re-introducing the festae will be to completely rearrange the tank so that any established territories on either part will be confused by the fish. That may bring limited success based on the aggressiveness of the type of fish you are keeping. Good luck!
On Tuesday I got a single male WC P. Loisellei from Jeff (along with some other fish) and all it does it hide right now. Today is it's 3rd day in the tank and it fianlly came out and ate some bloodworms for breakfast but went right back to hiding afterwards. How's your's doing as far as being brave enough to swim around the tank? Since you have 2 does it make a difference in their confidence?
I have kept jags, dovii and loiselli: and I would honestly say my male loiselli was the most aggressive fish I ever owned dominated anything in the tank eventually gave him to a friend but maybe this is not the norm just that individual fish as I've heard they are not known for aggressionsantoury;737295;737295 said:
well this tank has been up and runnin for awhile now, the festae went in a new tank with a male i found. The loiselli have paired and defend there 1/4 of the tank but are by far teh least aggressive guapotes ive owned, especially the male. there tankmates are, 2 6-7in tinfoils, 5in. silver dollar, 8in. male jd, 5in. female salvini, 5in. male electric blue jd, 4in. female con, 2 3in. pink cons(pair) 4in. red tiger motag male, 3in. red tiger motag female, there are no problems yet.
