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Thanks for all the sharing guys!
I happened upon wild Ap. bitaeniata "Tefe" instead and couldn't pass up on the chance of owning my favourite apisto again, so the Apistogrammoides will have to wait till my next tank if they're still available then!
I have an opportunity to get a wild pair of these interesting fish. Can anyone share experiences on husbandry and/or breeding of these fish? I'm planning on keeping them with corydoras, otos and perhaps licorice gouramis in a planted tank with a sandy base.
are they hard to keep alive?
I caught them fighting today before even breeding, so i've removed the 3 extra males and left the alpha male (ie prettiest) in with the female. guess i'll try and install a co2 set to get the ph low enough for them to breed. it's currently 6.1 using Gex brand soil (similar to ADA but without...
Update: 4 males and 1 female
So far, 3 males and the female are chiling together alot, but the remaining male likes to hang back and stay on his own. He has the blue irridiscent line (which is how i ided him as a male), but is showing some black on the ventrals (someone told me black...
hi thanks for the info Mike and Gillie. I went on an impulse buy and got another 2 males yesterday before I saw these. The bad news is that this particular batch of wild D. filamentosus was cleared out (mostly by me I think, LFS had mostly DOA fish when they arrived) so I can't trade in for a...
oops I already got 1 female in the mix. so far the 2 males have not been attacking each other and they have been swimming in a group of 3. would it be safe to add more males or should i even out the mix abit?
Just to add, I'm not necessarily looking to breeding them as my ph is about 6.0 to 6.2 and I read that they need really low phs in the high 4s or low 5s to have viable eggs. As such, my query is just about keeping them happily in my tank and not numbers for optimal breeding conditions
A shipment of wild D. filamentosus "Barcelos" came in over the weekend and by the time I got to the LFS, only 1 female was left. I was advised that a reverse trio was the way to go and so I happily left with 2 males and the sole female.
Now that they're in my tank, however, I'm feeling 3 is...
thanks for the ID Mike :) is there a common trade name or locality type for these (like the trade name Ap. agassizii "Manicore") or are they just simply known as Apistogramma agassizii "Nets/Netz"?
Hi, I was sold this wild fish as an Apistogramma agassizii "Tefe", but a comparison with available photos online seems to show that this isn't a Tefe, and I haven't been able to find anything similar enough to conclude what I got. Can anyone help?
does anyone have experience with male apistos not responding to obviously amorous females? my experience so far has always been the male hounding after the female to breed, and the breeding only occurring after the female finally gets in the mood.
i currently have a male, however, who has...
Some not very well taken photos of my new eliza. he's nothing special especially compared to the amazing elizas blueblue has, but i'm still really happy i got him :biggrin: I'm still unable to get pictures of him flaring, so here's him swimming around and exploring his new home (pictures were...