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I can't find much about these fishes other than that there are a few colour forms. Are they highly aggressive like trifs or more passive like lizzies; i presume they are polgymous but being in their own little complex i'm not sure - when i first saw pictures of them I thought they were...
Ok - i purchased a 15 - i'll setup it up with minimal scape and test it with the ladisalo first (i know a pair formed and maybe they will breed in isolation); so i guess 2 or 3 weeks till i move them and then 2 months of seeing what happens - then the d39 after that or if it turns out to be a...
i wanted to say more here because i often wonder why they didn't eat the frys if there is some secret sauce that allows them to avoid being canibals. I was esp amazed with the ipiranga and was often fearful the 2nd brood would be eaten by the first when feed the fishes since there was a wide gap...
Hum. I wonder. Oh well i'll have to think about this. Throwing a 10 or maybe a 15 on the counter somewhere might be possible short term if that is large enough - problem is they don't even sell 15s any longer.
I can say that both my Bluketa and Ipiranga did not bother with older f1 when brooding a 2nd time - and the older brood did not seem to bother with the frys nor did the frys show much fear around them. The bluketa female would chase the older frys if they got too close to her new brood the first...
Hum. I would have to setup another 10 but i could if nothing else comes up - i am feed them a lot of frozen brine shrimp - I have a floor 20 long that is empty since i hate floor tanks but i could put water in it i guess - just a pain to deal with. I guess if there are no other suggestions i...
I have a group of d39 (pictures shown here:
https://apistogramma.com/forum/threads/d39.29756/
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I believe at this point they are old enough to breed but have never seen any desire for breeding - my believe is i have 2 solid large males, 2 likely females and 1 maybe female. The aquarium is a 65...
A couple of other interesting tetra I have; not great pictures:
These guys seem to spend a fair amount of time fighting and they spread out across the aquarium - i have two groups of 8ish as they are horribly expensive. I have one group in a 10 with a soft dream they will one day decide to...
I think they are the same thing. Btw light level makes a big different. I have a 2nd group in a shaded aquarium and they are much more pale - they behave pretty much the same - so far they are behaving fairly gently and calm though if startled they will hide in the bottom and i think hiding...
Weird - most of the species i have the male seems to not go after the frys even when given a chance. In fact even the older f1 seem to mostly ignore the frys.
It would be interesting to categorize the species as to which are cannibals and which are not.
There are rgb dimminble flood lights on amazon (home depot probably has them); some of them are even programmable. They are a little more than the non dim - never tried one - i did try a regular flood light on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BHD8YY?tag=exoticpetnetw-20
This particular...
I don't think they are Blutkehl but i can't put my finger on it - i know there are several similar fishes like lineata and d51. One of the pictures has the lower bar marks which I think eliminate several of the species but it looks different than the B's i own (if in fact i own B's).
As someone external to the tank you think they can't see but they can being in the middle of it also they sense movement much more acutely then you or I. Once again one of the very best hiding place is decaying leaves that are 2 to 4 inch in diameter - the larger the better. I can't tell you how...
They won't - just avoid an aggressive species and when you first introduce them make sure you have a fair amount of leaves on the bottom they can hide under. Once they get established there might be less aggression depending on the species.