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Recent content by Mike Wise

  1. Mike Wise

    Is it my imagination or do tank raise fishes have a harder time adjusting to acidic water then wc fishes to more neutral water.

    I think it is your imagination. With 50 years keeping apistos, I've found that fish, no matter if wild or domestic, adapt to water values as long as the fish have been shipped properly (no ammonia damage to gills) and acclimated gradually to values not overly extreme.
  2. Mike Wise

    Breeding apistogramma ortegai papagei

    I've had them breed for me, too. My impression is that it would be best to have a larger aquarium (mine was a 20 gallon long (75x30x30cm), but your water values should be ok.
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    A plant new to me

    My most illustrious mistake was buying some small yellow and black tetras; very cute little things they were. After 6 months they had grown to basically silver 6"/15cm Triportheus angulatus, one of the Elongate Hatchetfish. They were very active, too active for a small tank. Off they went to the...
  4. Mike Wise

    Juvenile borelli opals

    True, male Opals will show red spangles on the face and a primarily blue body. Sexing will need to wait until the males develop the red markings and extension on the unpaired fins.
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    Atahualupa experience

    Remineralising chemicals (salts) will simply raise the conductivity of the water; not the best for softwater fish.
  6. Mike Wise

    A plant new to me

    Me too. Recently I found a single Hemigrammus hyanuary that the shop owner doesn't know where it came from or what it came with. It looks kind of lonely by itself in a 20 gallon long quarantine tank, where it will spend the next 6 - 8 weeks before adding to my community tank. Right now that tank...
  7. Mike Wise

    A plant new to me

    H. rodwayi is simply a non-paracitzed specimen of the Gold Tetra. The paracite caused the fish no real harm once the fish encapsulates the parasite within a shell that gives the fish a golden color. The fish remain the same gold color for the rest of their lives, but their domestic offspring...
  8. Mike Wise

    Atahualupa experience

    If you really need to remineralize your R/O, use tapwater. Forget the expense and waste of using chemicals. They will actually be just as happy in straight R/O. Organics in the tank will change the water values anyway.
  9. Mike Wise

    Juvenile borelli opals

    From your photos I would say that they are still juveniles and haven't shown sexual differences. I can't even say if they are Opal color morphs of A. borellii.
  10. Mike Wise

    Atahualupa experience

    One of the more aggressive apisto species, especially when breeding.
  11. Mike Wise

    A plant new to me

    Yes to some extent. I started with 7. Now have ~15-20, not counting those sent to my club's semi-annual auctions over the past 2 years. Anyone who needs a tetra for their club's Breeders Award Program, H. rodwayi is an excellent choice.
  12. Mike Wise

    A plant new to me

    Thanks for the ID and information, Darrel. It's really appreciated. My community tank is simple tap water (simple partial drain, add dechlor and a hose). I wonder if it could be used used as a spawning media for pencils and softer water fish? Me? I'm a anything that stays green in my tank...
  13. Mike Wise

    A plant new to me

    I’m not a plant specialist so this plant is new to me. So does anyone know what plant this is. No, it is not Java Moss. The leaves are much smaller, narrower and more pointed at the tip. It grows in a clumps, like Java Moss: It just suddenly appeared in my 40 gallon breeder tank about 4 months...
  14. Mike Wise

    Biotoecus Dicentrarchus

    I agree with Darrel.
  15. Mike Wise

    Collecting in Peru

    I never measured e.c. that high in any sites I sampled in Peru, but because I never sampled whitewater biotopes I wouldn't be surprised if it did measure as Ttw wrote. Ap. pucallpaensis is a wide-ranging species, from the entire Rio Ucayali drainage and eastward along the Peruvian Amazon as far...
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