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Yeah this may be true, although I remember that the male which died, which was in fact most probably brother of this one, had normal (long) dorsal fin spikes...
When I now look at the photos I don't understand why I insisted so long that it is a female...
Thank you again very much.
Hello, I may be having a silly question, as I am not sure about the gender of my mature ap. cacatuoides. I bought a pair long time ago and I had a lovely male which however died in a few months. The female kept growing and hunting shimps, so she is very colorful, but also large. Till now I...
Hey ming, how is your fry? My is growing quite good, although I was away on holiday for a week and during that time they were fed only once a day by my friend.
Some photos:
Wonderful photos, ming! Especially the fourth one from above.
I feed them with frozen food. Im not sure about English name of it, but I think that they are bloodworms. They look like worms and are red like blood :). The female is a little spoiled now, she doesnt eat anything else, only the...
Mikewang:
My male is app. 6 cm and female 3 cm long. First I had one male and two females in 66 litres tank, but one female died when the fry appeared.
Ming wrote his water parameters above.
Parameters in my tank: kH 4, pH 8-8.5 - I know, it should be lower, but I dont know what to do...
Thanks ming, you really helped me.
If I understand you correctly, you catch the bbs, but it in fresh water and in the fridge it is alive also after one day? Doesnt the bbs die, when it is not in the salt water for so long and when there is no adding air? Or, is this neccesary only when...
My apisto female is behaving the same when she is guarding eggs and then fry. She is attacking every fish which comes too close, also when it is the male.
Hi ming
The fry on the picture is nice, it starts to look more like its parents.
The male is wonderful!
Thats really bad luck that the female died, but you can be glad that it happened in the time when the fry was independent enough to survive also without their mother.
May I ask you few...
Thanks for your interest, ming. And congrats to your fry.
Im sorry I didnt write earlier, but I was very busy and I could hardly find time for the tanks, not even to write about it here.
The fry was doing fine for about three days but then I suddenly didnt have the bbs. I still dont know...
Coloration of the males
Thanks.
I dont know if they are wild caught. They may be, but I am not sure.
Only the two males have this coloration. The females are double red (I bought them in another shop).
I finally managed to take some photos which I could be proud of. :)
I found out that today I have much more bbs that fry can eat at once. I fed them in the morning, then in the afternoon and in the evening I wanted to give them the rest, but there is too much of it.
I could see how...
Well, the tank was a little overgrown that time... I had to cut it down.
Or, link to my whole Photoalbum at Yahoo is here.
Ok, and the light... I use 6 tubes of special aquarium light from Sylvania: 4xAquastar and 2xGrolux, each for 25 W, so together it is 150 W.
Thanks all.
Matt: My 55 gallon cummunity tank looks a little different today, but one photo which was taken few days ago can be seen here.
As you could recognise, I am also interested in plants, not only the fish :)
Corie: Ive read about your misery with cacatuoides fry. I hope you will...
:) Yes, Ive read about this before on this forum. Now the small xiphophorus are removed- It was not a problem at all. They could be caught to a net very easy, I was even wondering. Because catching their father to a net was an different case...
Now I think that in a role of predator for the...