my assams are doing great. I have 6, 1 male grew a lot bigger a lot quicker than the others and when i went home 1 day to find 1 of the smaller ones in its mouth, it lived, is happy, consequently the larger one is in a seperate tank with some tomasai dwarf cichlids. I believe i have left in the assam set up, 2 males, 1 of which is bigger and more colourful, obviously the more dominant one, they do occasionally have disagreements but the smaller 1 is submissive and so never ends up in a fight just chases it out of its space. And 3 females, which have less of the characteristic metalic blue and more of the orange spots/blotches. Im hoping they will show signs of breeding soon as the dominant male has coloured up a lot and 1 particular female is becoming 'plump' so fingers crossed! They live happily with a trio of tiny clown loach's about an inch long and a goldring butterfly loach. I went to bas yesterday and picked up 2 channa bleheri. About 5 inch in length. There was only the 2 this size, a few about 4 inch and about 20 or so about the same size the assams were when you got them from bas. I know you wanted the bleheri in the first place so i thought id let you know. Also andy, the main guy at bas told me to go back in march as they are getting about ten different rare species of the smaller channa if your intrested in keeping some different species, i know i am so il be going. They have a 5 inch ornatipinnis, i would got a pair but there was only 1 left, not bad at £30 though, and a group of nice pulchra at about 6 inch for about £20 each. Il try get some decent pics of the assams and their set up and the bleheris i picked up.
Dave
