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Hi Mike, thanks for stopping by this thread :)
The checkerboards are currently in there to "share" the deworming treatment (metronidazole, flubendazole and praziquental) that I am putting the tank through. They're eventually intended for another display tank. The same goes for the dither...
Thanks for the recommendation dwarfpike :)
I ended up being able to source 20 pcs of Tucanoichthys tucano and Ancistrus cf cirrhosus for this setup. Current inhabitants in the tank now are:
7x Ivanacara adoketa (1" juveniles)
20x Tucanoichthys tucano
5x Ancistrus cf cirrhosus (0.75"...
Hi all, my LFS is getting in a shipment from Glazer and in the shipment are some German bred Ivanacara adoketa juveniles. I'm thinking of setting up a 24x18x18 (about 30 gallons) biotope tank for about 5-6 juveniles to raise them and hopefully eventually get a pair or two out of the group (I...
Thanks so much everyone for the valuable insight =)
Based on everyone's feedback, I may scrap my idea of putting them in my office tank and instead obtain a nice pair of apistogramma for that tank instead.
I may move the 2 pairs of C. regani I have to my breeding rack setup and give each...
Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and experience. I was basing my decision off the article I previously mentioned, but after reading your posts, have decided to just keep 1 pair in the said tank. Will relocate the other pair perhaps to my breeding rack and try to breed them instead of...
I recently purchased 2 pairs of C. regani and, having read the article on Mostly Cichlids that 6 adults can be kept in a 20 gallon tank, decided to keep both pairs in my 13 gallon lightly planted tank in office. I don't intend for them to breed and so I don't think I will encounter the levels...
I've got no pictures unfortunately :(
I've got a young piece of Ap. diplotaenia that was the female of a pair I bought. Recently, the male went missing, and following that the female coloured up alot, and developed orange tips on its ventrals. The female flares at the mirror/ditherfish. It...
Thanks so much Mike :) If I can't get colourful schooling tetras as dithers, at least some hatchetfish and pencilfish should go well in the tank to dither the cichlids!
yeah i guess if i want a strict biotope tank i'll have to be satisfied with less variety :) The apistos are already purchased so I can't change locality now. The green discus will have to do. I'm just quite amazed at the lack of diversity in tefe while most other localities are quite abundant...
Chris, I meant schooling upper level tetras :)
As for availability, I live in Singapore, so shipping cories via aquabid isn't very viable for me...I have to live with what's available. Arcuatus is easily available for me, elegans not so much. I was just hoping for a wider variety to choose...
Which are the ones that are found in the Tefe and are distributed elsewhere too? I don't mind those in my tank as well :) Also, what schooling fish can I use?
With my recent acquisition of wild apistogramma (A. bitaeniata 'Tefe' and A. agassizii 'Tefe'), I will be setting up a Rio Tefe biotope tank. Tankmates currently included are a small school of 5 green discus. Can anyone help me identify other tankmates to make this an authentic biotope? I'm...
This is the reason i can't get much choice of other species than the common ones here. The LFS stocks up what is popular, and the rest have to be imported/brought in from Taiwan or Hong Kong, where the hobbyists are more discerning and/or adventurous :(