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It's hard to catch them with their dorsals up. They're usually flat down when they come out to feed, and my phone shutter speed isn't fast enough to catch the short flashes when they are flaring :(
I have a bonded pair of Wallaciia regani "Tapajos" that have been with me for over 6 months. They came as 2+ inch juveniles and are now 4 inch adults. When I first got them, the female had very obvious ocelli on her dorsal fin (2 of them), but I have recently noticed that both of them have...
My last post was not approved by moderators so I guess the link I posted to the wood I intended to get was somehow frowned upon.
Here's a recap:
Being in a tropical country mosquitoes (and dengue fever) are a concern, and my neighbour just behind my fish room doesn't properly maintain his...
Very nice tank! My fry are still with the parents and growing well. The dad still tries to scare off the uaupesi through the glass in the adjacent tank
There have been a few shipments of it in Asia over the past 2 years. A couple in Singapore and several in Hong Kong at least. I had a pair that I brought back from Hong Kong, but I lost the male when moving tanks while reconfiguring my tank rack. I'm hoping to get another male when I head to...
Being in a tropical country mosquitoes (and dengue fever) are a concern, and my neighbour just behind my fish room doesn't properly maintain his backyard, leading to lots of mosquitoes breeding there. I have to keep the windows shut and hence air conditioning is on 24/7 due to the humidity...
I think we have similar experiences for both species.
My bimaculata just keep eating their eggs, though in my case I think the eggs are fertilized - they are always in a flowerpot and last 3-5 days without turning white until one day they are just all eaten. By my estimation, it's usually when...
Entirely my opinion, but I think amano shrimp may have a thicker shell than cherry shrimp which helps discourage predation from dwarf cichlids. It's my observation from their leftover molted shells.
I put 10 amano shrimp and 10 fire red shrimp in my Apistogramma bitaeniata grow out tank (the...
OK got it thanks! It's my first time artificially hatching eggs. Usually I just let the female do her thing, but after 5 spawns over 3 pairs all getting eaten, I decided to give it a shot to at least see 1 batch of fry (hopefully). I hope the methylene blue stops the fungus from infecting...
They were normal colored when I moved them to the hatchery tank (24 hours after they were laid), but 2 turned white a few hours after and some more have turned white overnight. I thought that means that they were fungused rather than unfertilized. They were all the same colour as the first...
Some of the eggs are turning white despite adding methylene blue in accordance with the instructions on the bottle :( I've added more this morning to get a deeper blue, but haven't dared to add enough to make the water so dark that the eggs are barely visible like some Google results have suggested
Leaving the lights on helped abit but ultimately not good enough as the eggs/wrigglers still got eaten, just a few days later. The tanks are all at about waist/chest height in a dedicated fish room so there's only movement in the room three times a day - once to hatch brine shrimp (I keep 2...
One thing to keep in mind is that Channa in general are not easy to pair up. Channa bleheri is generally less aggressive than many other species of Channa, but just putting a male and a female together doesn't guarantee that they will pair up. When I kept this species previously, I had to buy...
Thank you for your advice. It's just frustrating that all 3 breeding pairs ate their eggs on day 4-5 (twice for one pair) :confused:
Both parents seem to be guarding the eggs and the male is not harassing the female, so I don't think the male is the issue - trying to catch the male may cause...
The last spawn got eaten again, and another pair laid a new batch of eggs last night. My wife now wants me to separate the eggs from the parents and artificially hatch them in another tank. Can anyone guide me on how to do this? I'm planning on setting up a new bare bottom tank that I usually...
Slightly off tangent question here, but does the monogamy give the male greater parental instincts than typical polygamous apistos? I have noticed my A rositae male helping to guard the fry and he has not been harassing the female to breed even a couple of weeks after the fry hatched. As of...