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    Most metallic blue Apistogramma

    Apistogramma panduro males are a beautiful metallic silver-blue. Nannacara anomala males are more of a metallic green.
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    L. curviceps showing a bit of colour

    I can’t say with certainty that it applies to all morphs, but this was the case with all the variants I’ve kept over the years.
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    L. curviceps showing a bit of colour

    There's no need to count scales. Besides being slimmer than the stockier L. dorsigera, L. curviceps always have a white border on the rear of their dorsal fins; the border on dorsigera is red throughout its length. This is apparent even in young specimens - the fish in the photo was about 1.5...
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    L. curviceps showing a bit of colour

    Nice fish, but they’re Laetacara dorsigera, not curviceps.
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    Apistogramma ortegai or cf. ortegai.

    Thanks, I thought as much. Sigh.
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    Apistogramma ortegai or cf. ortegai.

    I purchased this pair as Apistogramma ortegai Papagei, but now that they've matured I suspect that they're not. The male looks nothing like my avatar, which most definitely IS the Papagei form.
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    What west african tankmates are possible?

    I know that they can’t be considered big killies, but I’ve been keeping Epiplatys dageti Monroviae with Anomalochromis thomasi and Enigmatochromis lucanusi without any problems. The killies stay near the surface out of the cichlid‘s way, and both the killies and the cichlids produce fry which...
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    Need ID for this pair

    Beautiful pair of Apistogramma ortegai! Corydoras cats never learn not to intrude into cichlid‘s breeding territories. They’ll blunder into the territory, get chased away, and immediately swim back towards the cichlids. I’ve successfully used cardinal tetras as dithers for A. ortegai. I didn’t...
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    Tilapia ruweti

    Is this species still in the hobby? I’d love to get a hold of a pair.
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    Can anyone help identify the type of apistogramma these are?

    Pretty sure they’re young cacatuoides.
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    Dicrossus maculatus sexing

    In my experience if there is a trace of a pattern on the caudal fin in young fish they always turn out to be males. Female D. maculatus develop red anal fins, as opposed to D. filamentosus, which have red ventrals.
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    Agassizii infertility?

    My tap water is very soft - 31 ppm TDS. I've bred many species of Apistogramma without encountering this problem. The only similar case was a pair of A. macmaster which never produced fry, former inhabitants of the same tank the agassizii are living in now. This tank, unlike any of my others...
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    Agassizii infertility?

    Back in June I acquired a young pair of Apistogramma agassizii Blue Flame. Since then, they've grown into spectacular specimens, but so far no fry. The female shows brood care behavior but abandons the cave after a few days. On two occasions what appear to be fungused eggs have shown up outside...
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    Nannacara anomala

    I’ve found that sibling males raised together usually get on very well, even when breeding.
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    Exchanging stocking

    You might want to give Crenuchus spilurus a try. They’re cave spawners like Apistogrammas, very hardy and usually quite inexpensive. I kept mine with 3 Discrossus filamentosus males, whichI later rehomed, as I was unable to locate any females.
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