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Want to add that all of my 40 trifasciata juvies are looking like females aswell... they are kept in 26c 6.8ph and I somehow managed to get all females too lol
So I got a batch of 80 cacatuoides triple red, they are now 3 months (ish) old and I'm starting to worry about all of them being females?
I raised them on 27c and 7.3 ph water, I raised the temp in order to get more males but holy cow... they all look like females so far and my breeder male...
Ty, looking at it closer for a while I noticed the fins are becoming pretty pointy and the other apistos on that tank (all females) are kinda of displaying their bellies to the one on the picture, I guess only time will tell if it is a male, if it turns out to be a female then she is hugeee lol
So my big batch of Cacatuoides triple red are maturing now (3 months and a half) and I think I got all females from 60ish fish, all of them seem to be getting really red fins but the fins are still short and looking like really colorful females.
First month since fry swimming I kept them on...
Just here to be thankful, I really appreciate all the help ❤️!
Now I can say I'm a proud dad of 4 different types of apistos and I'm in love with this hobby more than ever!!!
Little update on the tanks now, also the trifasciata female just ate the eggs again on day 4.
I'm still looking for more leafs to add btw.
Do the tanks look more suitable now?
Currently drying up a ton of Guava leaves and yeah it is a chubby pencil fish, it's the only dither fish I use.
For some reason duckweek don't seem to do well on those tanks, probably because the water is to soft?
I'm going yo put a lot of leaf litter today or tomorrow, thanks for the advice
Hello everyone, all of my apistogrammas lay eggs every 3-4 weeks and they usually do tend and take care of the eggs, that's until day 3-4... so after 3 days the eggs disappear, I think the females are eating them for some reason, I don't know what the reason could be since my cacatuoides always...
How common is for apistos to lay eggs on the substrate?
This has only happened to me twice, the rest of the time they lay them on the roof of the cave.
New and probably last update, cacs mom is with babies and I artificially hatched some agassizii fry aswell, the agassizii mom needs to figure out how to hatch them by herself still, hopefully next batch she will :)
Yes each tank on the photos are for 1 pair of apistos, I tought it could be they really never had enough cover... now that they do, they are getting used to actually spawning.
And I'm only artificially raising the first few batches of eggs just in case, after that I'm going to let them do their job
Yeah I know that but i only got some endlers and pencilfish on their tank. Today I removed a big clutch off eggs from the Agassizzi's, going to artificially hatch them, the fish are now spawning almost weekly and look way happier tho!
Ty for the help everyone, I'm going to keep updating :)
Little update, I added some leafs and wood... only changed the substrate on one of the tanks, because I don't want to disturb things so much.
Last week both agassizzi and cacs spawned! But they both also ate the eggs, the agassizzi on the second day and the cacatuoides on the third day, why do...