Dealing with brichardis

[dpatte]

In the past couple of years i was breeding brichardis. For various reasons, age, blown heater, etc, i lost one fish in each of my three breeding pairs. Though my fry have grown out, i'm of course getting no new spawns from my 3 remaining brichardis that are still in their own tanks alone (and wasting space and resources).

I'd like to try to try to re-match a pair or hopefully a even get a trio from my remaining three brichardis, but here is the problem....

1 - Adult brichardis are quite aggressive towards each other especially if there are two males.
2 - I can't tell you the sex of my 3 remaining brichardis - they might all be males (25% chance if my math is right)

What would people recommend as a way of introducing the three together and hoping for some match without the three killing each other while they check each other out?

[fischkopp]

2 - I can't tell you the sex of my 3 remaining brichardis - they might all be males (25% chance if my math is right)

I can't help much with brichardis, but the odds are 12.5% -  just in case it makes you feel better.

Good Luck!

[dpatte]

12.5% - lol - true enough.

I was thinking of the chances that they are all the same sex - that works out to 25%

[dpatte]

I've decided to put them all into a 75g tank that has about a dozen demasoni and a 18 1.5" yellow labs. With all that activity, they may be too busy to bother each other or anyone unless they make pairs.
Good plan?

[markw]

One thing is now for sure...if you have a female in the group, and you put them in a tank together, they will soon take the tank over, unless you have very hungry piranhas in there.

[dpatte]

True. But if they pair, i'll remove them to their own tank.

Until then, the activity in the tank should keep their aggression down.

[pegasus]

Good morning David,
If those are the same brichardis I knew, you just put them up in a luxury retirement home. Joke aside, I never seen the formation of new pair after they had lost their fist mate, maybe because I waited to long to re-introduce them and they had lost all interest in the thing. Deja-vu: mine were also a trio, put up in a 80 gal. tank, aggression to a minimum and they died of old age. I did the same with leleupi with same result. To your question... I think it will all depend on their being young or old pups.
Good luck, may we see each other at the auction.
Michel

[dpatte]

Status Update: I followed my plan, and each brichardi now has its own territory, and there is no fighting between them.

I've decided to put them all into a 75g tank that has about a dozen demasoni and a 18 1.5" yellow labs. With all that activity, they may be too busy to bother each other or anyone unless they make pairs.
Good plan?