info and experience in keeping Pantodon buchholzi (African Butterfly Fish)

[Saffa]

[h=3]Pantodon buchholzi (African Butterfly Fish)[/h]Wow these fish are amazing!!!!

Does anyone in Queensland keep these amazing fish

Have been learning heaps on the internet but want to hear first hand if anyone is keeping these fish or even better breeding them

I realise there is two species that look the same and impossible to tell apart.

From what ive researched about these fish they require soft slightly acid water and eat live food as well as floating food.

They are a surface dweller and the African Butterfly Fish are notorious tank jumpers so im looking at glad wrapping the tank and providing a lot of floating plant cover.

Looking at purchasing a pair.

Interested to hear from anyone who has had experience with these fish

[DeadFishFloating]

Kept them for many years, and planning on keeping them again soon in a planted tank.

The only reason I would even disturb my serenity again by breeding crickets, altho last time I ended up with woodys which were much less drama.

live food = happy pantadons.

http://www.qldaf.com/forums/freshwater-species-9/pantadons-74303/

[Saffa]

How often do you feed them crickets ???

Any crickets better than others???

OMG more breeding live food ...... Blackworms, microworms, daphnia, brine shrimp and mosquito larvea (controlled of course) ....... now crickets

Full time job maintaining the live cultures LOL

Did you sucessfully breed the pantodons DFF? and what other species of fish did you keep in the same tank?

[Scottavius]

i had mine on a diet of crickets and neon tetra when they could catch them, but the accepted without fuss hikari floating cichlid pellets, my biggest mistake in keeping these guys was moving them into my 6ft tank the surface current was a bit much for them, i had 10 of them, will defs be getting more now that i have a tetra tank again,.

[camman]

I kept a pair in a still pond for about a year before separating them into tanks because my female started chasing my male around - I now keep one in a tank stocked with corys and bn since they only inhabit the top couple of inches and the big one lives in a comunity tank with a pair of golden panchax - I get them one box of crickets a fortnight and feed them three or four each a day until they run out then they just eat floating protein crumble no luck with breeding but I read that getting the fry to eat is a real pain

[camman]