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Originally Posted by JanS
The Apisto's will do fine in most any tank providing the water is clean. There are a few that are a little more delicate, but something like the Cac's s should work well for you.
As for breeding, it's difficult unless you have soft water that's a bit on the acidic side.
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Not so, I have bred and raised many batches in planted tanks with Liquid Rock Tap water. Cac's adapt very well.
You will have to remove the fry and grow them out in a separate 5 gallon or the like, bare bottom so you can clean up daily after you feed and you have to feed 2-3 times a day.
Also, one key to them doing this often is slow moving to still water.
In high flow tanks, they never breed. The female is always yellow, but never eggs or fry (they are Hongsloi and Mcmasterii also now in there and that might also be why they don't breed) but in the past, only in the slow flow tanks would they breed and raise fry to where I could get them out.
Good luck, it is fun, hard work and worth it.