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The rumor is hybrid though i believe their origin is not well known. I still see them frequently being offered/sold under various names - borelli blue steel seems to be the newest name that pops up on places like ebay. I think i remember reading most (all?) females are sterile.
Ok. What confused me is that tom look like the traditional Mac and the one on facebook seem to have a less mac like arrangement of fin and black markings but i'm pretty clueless.
If you do get them you should read up on them first they are rather well not quite like most apistogramma when it comes to care. If your average species of apisto is a bus these are closer to bikes.
When they pair up the newly form pair will likely be coloured up making them easier to identify also they will likely attempt to breed short after pairing up.
aquaticclarity has adoketa (probably not red strain) wc
chances of finding bimaculata wc is extremely unlikely. My understanding is they are in a very remote spot and on set was caught (I think germany) and all of those for sale we see came from that set.
Oddly i've not had much success with water lettuce in my black water aquariums. If i can get frobit to group up tight enough so it produces emersed leaves it does well but then if i thin it and the leaves get wet the melt and it takes a long time to produce the other type of leaves (i'm...
More hiding places given their size - mine hide in the grass and under leaves. I have a large amount of 3 inch tall grass in my aquarium. The grass is one of the micro swords i forget which - i only purchased one tiny plant but after a few months it had spread everywhere....
It is mostly because they are domestic; and the process of selective breeding to produce certain colours or forms result in many of the normal traits for determing sex are lost; it isn't always like this but for this specific breed and colour form that is what happened.
I would add more caves via driftwood that has curves and nooks that the fishes can get under; of course if you put in a ton of leaves that might work but they will have to replaced as they decay. The problem with the current scape is that there aren't any great hiding areas.
Also if the macs...
The females are more aggressive than males I had 2 females with 4 males in a 65 and as far as i know i now have 1 female with 4 males. My female frequently breed but the eggs don't hatch (they are translucent and as far as I can tell they are fertile so either she is giving up and eating them or...
I've had both blue and green form n anomala but every green form i've seen has been 1.5x larger than the blue form - i'm not sure if this size difference is due to how the domestic are being bred or if this is a characteristic of them in the wild hence the question.
(this size difference is in...