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I’ve kept and bred them in tanks of up to 30 gallons, but seem content in 10 gallon tanks. My current breeding pair are residing in a 10 with some young from their last brood. They won’t spawn until they have the tank to themselves again. The only time the pair squabble is when the male tries to...

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I’ve been breeding them in a 10 for years. I’ve been using Epiplatys dageti Monroviae as dithers, which also produce young in the tank. My tap water is naturally very soft, 31 ppm TDS, and the pH doesn’t have to be super low; 6.5 suits them just fine. I’ll be putting a few young pairs up for...

It could just be old age. Many sites claim that Trichogaster chuna can live for up to 8 years, but most of mine have lasted for 2 years, with a very few making it to 3.

They’re cave spawners like dwarf cichlids; males embrace females during spawning like anabantoids. Single species tanks are necessary for breeding, but they can be kept with other small species that won’t outcompete them for food, such as small rasboras or killies. They’ll take frozen as well...

Males have lemon yellow dorsal fins; female’s dorsals have a thin orange edge.

Female.

Laetacara curviceps is my favorite, mostly because I’m partial to blue fish, but also because it’s the first cichlid I ever bred and helped lead me down the rabbit hole of MTS. I currently have a breeding pair descended from fish a friend of mine somehow found at a Petco in Manhattan. And, yes...

I’ve always had a soft spot for Laetacara araguaiae. They're very nondescript when young, but soon grow into spectacular, pastel colored adults. Nannacara anomala are a bit feistier, and a brooding female will sometimes kill her mate if the tank is too small. I keep mine in groups of 6 +, the...

Sauron’s Eye looking out from the Teddy.

Pygmy sunfish, especially Elassoma gilberti, have become fairly popular among U.S . fishkeepers.

I kept them in the late 70s. I was pleasantly surprised when I spotted them at an LFS in Brooklyn, now long defunct. I purchased them as 1.5 inch juveniles which grew to 2.5 inches in the 2 years I had them. They were kept in an unheated tank and happily ate flake foods, but never showed any...