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Sorry about that I guess cellphone camera and blackwater are not a good starting point:
However here is a short movie here is a short downloadable movie of this guy:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tm5yks8n8mzlffh/2020-09-16%2015.09.54.mp4?dl=0
Can anybody identify? It was sold to me as A. Cacatuides... But it is definitely not:
link to movie: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qub4gecs69tm8ey/WhatsApp%20Video%202020-09-16%20at%2015.12.04.mp4?dl=0
My goodness I could be rich. I have two to three active pairs and close to 90% survival of the ones that i syphon. In israel very few people are interested in apistos. I recently sold 8 9 months old fish for 5 nis (a bit more then 1$) each.
I have around 20 young, 4 months old and a 2 week...
Here is a picture of a Papagai active m & fm. Their ID is sure as they are from the same paerents:
I wonder if the different pattern (mine vs Noddy65) on the female is a variation or a sign of a different sp?
They look too red to be from nature
You should use at least a combination of R/O water.the pH is too hi and probably your water is to hard (too much Ca/Mg prevent efficient fertilization) Peat filtered water do miracles in terms of induce spawning and egg/larvae/parent survival.
Hi there Mike, here are two pictures i got from Jan (Dr. Oxmann) of females from the two species (A. sp. Nanay/Melgar and A. sp. Papagei/Parrot). Can you determine the species in each picture?
yes, twice First spawn i separated 10 and now I have 6 healthy young ones
2nd time I left them with their mom but the aq. is too crowded and they survived a bit more than a week. Now I think have eggs based on the females color. I'll try to transfer them with the mother.
Thanks for the correction. I have to say that the female was completely indistinguishable from the rest of my fish. based on size i have clearly two (out of six) males the "alpha" is most of the time very pale.
My A. Iniridea are 3 monthes old. Grew in pure R/O with half grown ancistrus in a 45 liter aquarium with massive filtration
Feeding is based only on detritus from a gambisia inhabited aquarium situated in a sunny spot. You can see the green guk at the bottom:
Feeding twice dayly...
finally an active pair of Iniridea. They are guarding a territory. And the fm has her own half coconut that she gets in & out of. The pH is kind of too high (5.5 70-100µS) so I guess there is a low chance for getting something out of the eggs.
The fmale
The male
Dont get me wrong. I am not questioning the validity of the info. Rather I am trying to understand how the conductivity remain that low.
Now I think that it is possible that as opposed to charged ions (salts), dissolved carbons (from the peat) actually reduce the conductivity values of the...