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That would have been my guess. Do they usually have so much red in the faces?
p.s. my apistos are doing really well. Just sold a bunch of juvenile cacatuoides to my LFS. I think the borelliis may have spawned yesterday. The rams are being finicky and not breeding lately (like I really need...
Here is the pic. Don't ask about the address, it's a long story . . .
http://skinheads.net/~beatskin/March%2015,%202003.jpg
This photo appears in David Boruchowitz's book "The Simple Guide to Freshwater Aquariums" It's a cute book, but the photo credits are lacking. I was just curious what...
Some of the leaves on Java ferns will get very dark, then start sprouting new baby leaves. You can remove these "parent leaves" from the plant and tie them to driftwood, thereby starting a new Java fern colony. They grow slowly, but you get free plants eventually.
This has been a fascinating thread to read. I took two evolution courses to complete my biology minimum requirement in college - it gives me a little background - enough to be interested in genetics but not enough to pontificate.
I'd like to throw a breeding scenario into the discussion to...
I went through a bad battle with neon tetra disease myself. I removed all the neons, left the tank tetra-free for a while, and eventually reintroduced neons. However, I quarantined all new neons for over a month in a QT. The way the disease works, in my experience, is it will kill a bunch of...
I had a pair of rams and a single male cacatuoides in my 55 gallon tank. Everytime the rams would breed, the cac would eat the eggs, and the rams got very territorial. The cac would chase the female ram, then the male ram would come over and chase him . . . not too many nipped fins, but I don't...
I know that many of the apistos sold as pairs are actually siblings, often from the same spawn. To what point can you breed sibling apistos before there are problems? I sold five sub-adult borelliis to a friend in town, and he was skeptical that they could be bred b/c they are from the same...
Wow, what a neat idea. I raised my very first baby fish in one of those little square mesh-net-lined boxes you hang over the side of the tank. My main problem is that my babies grow very slowly - I have a 20 gallon long grow out tank with maybe 40 or so fish in it. BBS and flake food alone just...
If they are big neons and small angels, it could work. Until the angels get large . . .
I love the smaller tetras because they make a tank look larger, and you can get a scholl of 20 of them going in a decent size tank. Try glow-lights or cardinals if you want smaller tetras, or diamonds...
Is it just me, or are cacatuoides more aggressive than rams and borelliis? I have one male in particular - his colors are fantastic - that is a mean old snaggletooth. Likes to eat babies, too.
They're in business to make money. So they push all kinds of crap on customers. And most consumers aren't sophisticated enough to question the salesperson or wonder whether there's a simpler way to do things. I would cut in on a conversation but only when the sales clerk is out of ear shot...
Could just be the eggs went bad, or were a bad batch to begin with. I use one teaspoon of reef salt to one liter of water and get lots of bbs after 48 hours.
I have bred apisto cacatuoides in a 10. All the tank has is a spong filter, some driftwod, and some java fern, plus a few small hiding places. I filter all my water throuh peat when making changes, but that is probably not necessary for cacatuoides.