Female died for no apparent reason :/. It stopped eating for a week plus now I think. Got two more females, I shone a torchlight in there last night.. wa lauuu the colour of one of the female... DAMN FRIGGIN CHUN. MORE CUN THAN PICTURE ABOVE. The blue bars even thicker and the red is like ferarri red. The male also hypnotized I think. He paired up with the damn cun female #1, and female #2 seems to be ignored. Female #2 eating live daphnia like pig, damn big the tummy, like kena dropsy. I think the male suspected an eating disorder and chose to pair with female #1 . But I think the female #1 bully female #2, I see her nipping at her... like confirming she's alpha female. So... what's a good ratio for vaillantis in terms of gender? 1:1 or 2f:1m or 2m:1f?

They're now in my blackwater tank with peat, with my habrosus and apistogramma trifasciata.