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Hello everybody,

I changed the substrate (fine sand instead of sharp gravel, the zebra's really love it and reinvented the fine art of digging!) and planted a lot of fast and slower groing plants, to have finally succes with the plants in this tank.
I will tell more about this project later and show foto's (finally).

During this project it turned out that from the originally 9 fry, 5 have survived, what brings me to a total of 9 zebra's.

I added 4 otocinclus affinus, with which I am quite satisfied (they don't steal zebra food). And I want to add some surface dweller other than hatchet fish.

I am thinking about epiplatys dageti, but I am worried if it stands the high temperature and rather strong current.

Does anybody has experience with this fish?

Hi there
Yup I breed them.............the zeb tank would be unsuitable really .........as these fish live in the lower 70s.............and they come from still waters also.............but still a lovely lovely fish.
I breed mine in the fishouse in a unheated tank ,with a small sponge filter with very little flow.
Hope that helps

Sid

Hello Sid,

I am happy to have found someone with experience with both L046 and the Epiplatys. This confirms my doubt.

Thank you very much