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Setting up my first tank, need some guidance.

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There are some species profiles on that site as well here
This forum and that site are some of the best resources I've found. There are great books out there as well, but I will let someone else speak to that as information sometimes becomes quickly outdated.
 

madmike

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Thanks for the tips.

A. cacatuoides looking at the man with the camera.

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Hunting for food. Love the colors!

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A. macmasteri out chasing some tetras for fun.

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And then he had enough, so he went inside again.
 

madmike

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Today I got a bag of free Pistia stratiotes which I added to my tank. A nice dim light in the aquarium now thanks to the lovely plant. I also recieved a couple of batches of Microsorum pteropus and Taxiphyllum barbieri. It's poorly detailed now as I'm still waiting for my roots to arrive.

I also received three more apistos, said to be a wild caught a. gephyra, a. hongsloi and a. viejita (macmasteri of course...) They were all supposed to be males, but I'm doubting it. The gephyra is very shy and hiding away at the filter intake. As for the supposed a. macmasteri (I'm 99.9% it's a female) she's getting chased and "swooned" by the macmasteri male all the time. Her belly looks red? I also acquired four C. paleatus which are thriving at all the algae.



The old macmasteri scouting for the new citizens.
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A. cacatuoides also doing a little scouting
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A. hongsloi?

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Maybe a future couple? For the sake of the cory's and the other inhabitants I hope not, unless I move them to another tank.

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This is the female, I believe..

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A. macmasteri visiting the lonely gephyra.

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A. gephyra, can anyone see if this is a female or a male? I do believe I saw some blue markings on its face.

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And last, a Cory enjoying itself.

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madmike

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I got around to decorating my aquarium with the new stuff I got. The water got a nice golden brown color and the pH lowered itself to a suitable 5.8-6.0. The new heaters also stabilized the temperature and I noticed immediately that a. macmasteri female and the a. hongsloi gained good colors. Excuse me for the bad photos, but the aquarium is dirty on the outside at the moment. The pictures of the tank in the whole is taken before the catappa leaves could affect the color.


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Here you can clearly see the colors of the macmasteri female. Wonderful fish! They both seem interested in each other, but there's been no eggs or sperm spraying yet.
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a. macmasteri male is at guard and is bossing around the aquarium with nice colors and growing fins.
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a. hongsloi
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I also started making baby brine shrimp - what a fun experience to see the fish going crazy about living food.
 

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