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Ahhhh I see now. That makes a lot of sense!
Well, I'm not sure what you should do :-/ sorry I'm not much help.
That's an exquisite male specimen though! I can see why you don't want to give him up!
:( Can't see the video because of Facebook permissions. Any chance you could put it on Youtube? It might be too much trouble to make it available via FB.
Neat video! Sounds like you've gone through a lot to get a spawning pair. Stinks about the female who jumped. Looks like you've got a bunch of beautiful fry now though! Congrats, and nice tank setup! I like it!
Awesome! Congratulations!
That's an odd observation about the water chemistry during water changes. I'd be interested to know if you could pinpoint it to the pH or what else might be going on there...
If you intend to breed the US male, then why sell him??
I don't know about A. viejita specifically but in my experience they absolutely could spawn within a couple hours. It's funny that they pulled the curtains on your viewing party though! ;) :P
Do you think they could still be settling in or do you expect that by now they'd be pretty hungry? What kind of conditions were they coming from? Have you tried feeding anything else besides the bloodworms?
Couple things: first is that I've never seen a Youtube Capture video before (I don't think) That looks like it's pretty cool and works very well.
Second is that I like your story about separating them only to find out that they really were a mating pair. It always pays off to play it safe...
Welcome to the forum! Thanks for joining the community all the way from Singapore - we're glad to have you here! Hope you find all the answers you seek.