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    Mouth-brooding period for A. megastoma

    finally saw the fry out of her mouth today for the first time, but they still have a bit of yolk sack in the belly. Not swimming yet. She might put them back in or maybe will just leave them out from now on, willl see what happens. :)
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    Mouth-brooding period for A. megastoma

    Hi, I have an Apistogramma megastoma female that has laid eggs sometime on 20th-21st of September and has been mouth-brooding for the last 3-4 days. Doesn't seem like she'll release them today either. I didn't expect her to be holding them for so many days since people noted that they did not...
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    • a.megastoma apistogrammamegastoma breeding female fry megastoma (sp. kelleri) mouth-brooding
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    • Forum: Husbandry / Breeding
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I did buy fish from private sellers I think twice since I came to Germany. They said they wouldn't take responsibility if the fish arrived dead and asked if I accepted that condition. They arrived just fine fortunately. It was like this in Turkey too. If you bought animals from private people...
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I sadly have no places that sell any rare species nearby, pretty much always the same species have been available for years. Buying fish from online stores is a gamble for sure but it's fine more than 50% of the time in my experience. Sometimes they send different species or famished or sick...
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    If I had a car and a licence I would have so many more tanks in my room... Ebay Kleinanzeigen is torture for me with all the rare species people breed and sell at absurdly cheap prices just with "no shipping" in description. But it's understandable, I would also not be able to send fish via...
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    2 weeks old fry (well, almost)
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    a few Biotoecus opercularis of mine

    I do not know if they really are B. opercularis or another Biotoecus species but they do look like it. They are just around 3 cm right now so they have some growing to do. They were listed as wild fish, but they did accept dry food relatively fast. I keep them in an aquarium with the values of...
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    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Yeah buying R/O water is certainly more expensive than buying a R/O unit. I pay 20 cents per liter and carry 25-30 liters to my home from the pet store everytime with shopping bags and a backpack. Thankfully both the store and my home are very close to tram stations. Distilled water at grocery...
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    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Interesting, I thought neons and cardinals were both mostly captive bred at this point. Good to know. when I take some Hydrocotyle out of the tank and put it in other aquariums with soft water they also melt to a point and then develope micro leaves and more pale colors. These other aquariums...
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    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Thanks for all the information, very helpful answer. All my fish except cardinal tetras were listed as wild caught fish, so I suppose I should keep them without mixing and tap water or maybe just a little. I do plan to slowly acclimate the juveniles of the fish I breed to 100% tap water as well...
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    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Hi, I usually see measurements of 1-50 microSiemens of conductivity from wild collection sites of many dwarf cichlids, tetras and pencilfish etc. And some internet articles such as Seriouslyfish pages recommend water with close to or straight up 0 ppm TDS for many low pH preferring species. But...
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    • Thread
    • #waterchemistry conductivity distilled health lowph minerals r/o softwater tds
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Water Chemistry
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    The fry are doing well, seems like their number is still stable and they are growing. Here are some videos of the fry at their first day of swimming:
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I removed the male yesterday, a few hours after the fry started to swim. It was hard to feed him while he mostly hid in the jungle part and whenever he came out the female would push him back into the jungle even when he was more than a foot away from the fry. I feared he might eat the fry since...
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Well, good news. Most of the eggs turned into larvae and the fry are starting to swim now. I added a full pack of Eheim torf pellets to the 50-60 liter aquarium 2 weeks ago, so I think that played a major part in the success. The pH value is 4-4.5 right now! The eggs from the batch before this...
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    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Oh the fry did not even use up their yolk sacks. They were just 2-3 days old, still wriggling on surfaces the mom placed them on.
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