S. cf. splendidus and S. picturatus males.

[zdw1911]

I have males of both species, in separate tanks, both trained to eat frozen mysis. Picturatus eats almost anything I give him actually. My question is this... what are the chances of successfully keeping both in a 28 gal nano. Picturatus started in said tank until he was eating frozen, then I put him in my 75 where he's been doing great. I recently bought splendidus and put him in said nano tank and have gotten him to eat frozen mysis for the last few days. Both fish are extremely fat. Will they fight each other because they are males? Or because they arent exactly the same will they be ok? BTW, the only other fish in the nano is a yellow neon stripe goby. I would love to have both of my favorite fish in the same tank by my bed so I can watch them do their thing while I drift off...

 

[OrionN]

i would guess that both male will fight. why don't you try it and let us know.

 

[ThRoewer]

My guess would be that they fight. I had both species, but can't remember if I ever tried to put them together into one tank - most likely I did not, given the fact that I had enough tanks (it would actually have been enough to open a small store).

 

[starkii]

Not having done it myself I can say with confidence that they will probably fight. This is because someone I knew ran a shop and had a few customers try it. Mixing females seemed fine but males were a problem and sometimes due to shipping stress spotted mandarins can be hard to sex (or imature males who haven't fully developed yet).