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Recent content by Rapophie

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    New fish what to eat

    Frozen Artemia (brine shrimp) work great too, I think they are pretty soft so the fish can bite them off or compress them easily if they are too big.
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    Setting up an Apisto tank

    Mixing Apistogramma species is generally not recommended, keeping just one is probably your best bet. The entrances to the caves look a little large, the fish will probably prefer the gaps between the rocks as hiding spots, though I don't have a good reference for size, so not sure about that...
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    A. borelli alone?

    I have kept a male alone to for breeding purposes (separating it from the fry and female) for quite a while and there were no signs of stress or similar, he was coloring up like normal and looking healthy. Behaviour was normal too, he was eating well and mostly ignored the other fish (white...
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    Is play sand safe for apistos?

    I use play sand and it is completely fine, never even had any problems with gas pockets and the like. Before buying make sure it has no weird additives, if that would be the case it will always say that on the packaging (at least here in Germany it does, not sure about other places in the...
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    Camera to see if apistos have eggs

    Good to know that the difference in nutrition is actually significant, will try to feed some BBS soon.
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    Camera to see if apistos have eggs

    Won't Microworms work for at least the first few days/weeks? With those you don't need to keep hatching them every day, they are just ready to feed provided the culture is already going. Currently, I have some A. Borelli fry that left the cave about a week ago and they seem to be doing fine so...
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    Is this ich or part of a healing injury?

    I will keep an eye on him. The dots do not look like salt, I think it may be an odd reflection at certain angles. Appreciating the help!
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    Is this ich or part of a healing injury?

    My a. Borellii had a fight a couple of days ago and I think the female injured the male on the pictures at some point. They were completely peaceful for the two months I have them now. He had a couple missing scales, those seem to bee recovering, and now I spotted two small white dots in the...
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    60l - getting ready for my apistos!

    Beautiful, good to see a lot of plants, gives the Neos a better chance of survival.
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    Borellii vs opal

    I read in a couple of German-speaking sources, that borellii Opal is a local colour variation from the Rio Paraguay, but as already stated, most people will likely refer to any borellii with a red face, since hybrids, bred (I actually have not seen evidence of those yet) and natural strains are...
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    Hello everyone!

    Hi, Just wanted to say hello from the very western edge of Germany! I keep a pair of Apistogramma Borellii in a 60l (approx 16gal). Does somebody know if bladder or ramshorn snails eat their eggs by any chance (even though I should probably post about that in the breeding section?)? Thanks!
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