Endlers As Food/ Community

[saltynay]

I have 3 males and 5 female endlers and they recently laid there first spawn . Was thinking of setting up my larger 60 gallon tank and picking up the 4 angels offered by a member and putting them in there. I was wondering if i put 1 of the males and 2 of the females in the larger tank with a bunch of young adult fry from the current batch in the tank and heavily planted with the angels, would reproduction rates keep my endlers in their?

I would keep the angels well fed on a varied diet and with the vegetation cover and perhaps some sort of cave network for the endlers to hide in would they survive long enough to create the next gen and so on or wiped out within the week

 

[Truck]

once the angels are fully grown you can kiss your male endlers good by along with all fry.

 

[saltynay]

What would roughly be the timescale of the massacre?

 

[Truck]

well once the angels hit 4ish inches they will begin to try and eat the endlers, but they will eat fry from about 1"-2"

 

[saltynay]

How many would they eat a day as many as they possibly can leading to hunting or oppurtunistic attacks?

 

[Truck]

theyll eat as much as they can get, given the choice fish wont stop eating for ages, my rams munch on up to 30 fry a day and theres 2 of them.

 

[saltynay]

So If I breed endlers in one tank and put them in as adults say in 25 fully grown adult lots how quickly would these dissapear? Would it lead to an overfeeding of protein and fats making the angels ill in the long term.

 

[Truck]

im not sure but the angels would probably get bloated and fat as you say, but its not like an endler contains much muscle is it