I bought 4 pairs from Rod as well. Very nice looking fish. The females would have to be the best looking female Aphyos I've seen : nice solid red markings.

They have all been cohabitating for the last 6 weeks or so waiting for some space to free up in muddy aquaculture (aka my lounge room ). They settled in well and seem happy enough to take pellets on occasion (yay). Their tank just had a sponge filter and some java moss and was in the middle of the shelf so got a fair bit of light. On the couple of occasion I checked the moss I found no eggs. For the record they are in a 40cmx15cmx20cm tank, ~24dgC, GH ~7, pH ~6.8 (puerzli are from Cameroon so should prefer higher temps).

Finally setup a pair in a tank of their own, again sparsely furnished as I had run out of mops. They were pretty shy and only couple of eggs were found. When I added some more mops them seemed _much_ happier. The male coloured up nicely and started courting/chasing the female. I found ~25 eggs the next day, most on the bottom of the floating mop, a few in the bottom mop. I also found some in the mops I added to the tank with the other 6 fish.

I've placed the eggs on wet peat. Time will tell how they go.

Dean

Edited by: namezmud at: 13/11/05 19:50