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Did you do anything to simulate rapids (ex. powerheads) and did it have any effect on the bichir if you did?
Regardless of what the final cichlid choice is I was planning on a few small PH's to create a gentle current around the tank, but from my reading I am under the impression that S...
I already have..may not sell them to me now. ;)
Maybe I'll leave the Polypterus out, though I was kind of excited because I've never had one before. I had yet to figure out how I wanted to do the top of the tank with such a fish in question and the material/weight needed to keep it inside...
I'm not trying to make you all irritated, it's just that someone I know who has kept Polypterus for a few years did a similar set-up with the larger species in a larger tank and had no issues with it.
Here are links so you can find out more about the other person's experience. They go under...
As I said, I based this set-up off of one that had been run successfully before that included Pelvicachromis species. That set-up actually contained P. senagalus and P. ornatipinnus(sp?), which are much larger than the species I aim to keep, and there were no problems.
I said in NY state. I don't live in the city of NY.
I wasn't trying to advocate any particular view- I was just pointing out that it doesn't matter if your local area is industrious or not because most of your pollution will be from places very far away. It gets shot up into the atmosphere...
Where I live in NY state there's no huge industry in the area, but that doesn't stop the pollution from Chicago from soaking straight into our atmosphere. And the acidity of the rain in the Adirondacks is bad enough that we have lakes that are too acidic to hold any fish.
I'm casually considering a change to the line-up for my 120g (48"x24"x24") West/Central African community that I'm setting up in the Fall. I previously planned to include two pairs of P. rubrolabiatus, but if someone can suggest to me another cichlid that would fit in this community let me...
Last one...
These are the two that spend some of their time together (more like tolerate each other when they do spot the other). One is enjoying a piece of gelatin'd brine shrimp, and the other is rather interested in stealing it. ;)
This is the most colorful of the three:
And this is the one that he/she spends the most time with. Both of them don't seem to care for the third one:
Edit: By the way, that's not ich on the second one's tail. It's an artifact of the lighting and my cruddy camera.
They only tend to posture in one area, while one of them wanders around the tank the rest of the time and the other hangs around the jungle of fake plants that is above the cave in this image.
Another posturing picture:
I still don't know the sex of these two, so in the next topic...
These fish are about 1.25" SL, and I picked up two of them at a local store, then another a day later. I've read about sexing these fish through the appearance of elongated dorsal/anal fins, "plumpness" in the female, and different things about colors, but I really didn't see that much of a...
Hello,
I am always on the look-out for fish forums and I was directed to apistogramma.com by Randall. I've been keeping different freshwater fish for about five years, though the only dwarf cichlids I've ever kept were P. pulcher and M. altispinosa. I only ever had one kribensis, but I had...