| Old Text: | Feeds on algae, flake, frozen and live foods. It has a fondness for peas and spirulina tabs, and may turn to eating aquarium plants if sufficient vegetative matter is not supplied. Easy to care for, due to its extreme hardiness and generally peaceful disposition. A pair will do fine in a 5 gallon tank.
| New Text: | Feeds on algae, flake, frozen and live foods. It has a fondness for peas and spirulina tabs, and may turn to eating aquarium plants if sufficient vegetative matter is not supplied. Easy to care for, due to its extreme hardiness and generally peaceful disposition. A pair will do fine in a 5 gallon tank. If provided with a well-furnished aquarium of 24"x12"x12" or larger capacity, containing plant thickets and bogwood decorations bearing lush growths of Java Moss, these fishes will spend time exploring the plants and the Java Moss thickets, looking for algal threads to eat,and will also pick flake food from such thickets during feeding. Given the robust constitution of these fishes, they are ideal companions for other fishes of the 2-4 inch size range, particularly fishes that are of similarly robust constitution. Exercise care if attempting to integrate these fishes with small aquarium inhabitants, as some nippiness may be noted.
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Posted 02-Mar-2009 08:55
