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I haven't seen them on the bottom the last few days but I'm thinking of getting one of these video cameras that stick tot he side of the aquarium and seeing what they do when i'm not around. In fact as the days have passed they have started to hang out higher and higher (this tank is actually...
nijjensi, panduro and inka - there are others but those are the most common. Btw wetspot has a. pucallpaensis - you would have to buy 6 but they are cheap and very forgiving of water hardness. Nice little fish - almost a bit more tame than some of the other species.
For me domestic just means mass bred; though as @MacZ the species he listed will never been in natural form when domestic - well my understanding is borelli is pretty close to natural form as i've seen wild opals and non opal that look pretty close to what is sold. Also some of the less red...
The fellow in florida doesn't ship. the best options for stores are wetspot and aquaticclarity if you are set on an apistogramma species - imperical also sometimes have some imports they had indria earlier this year but nothing recent and aquaimports have some wc a. bitaeniata but they are not...
It is actually better for the aquarium to just leave the bits of wood in the tank to decay. The big problem with your aquarium is lack of real structure on the bottom for the fishes to hide - this is one of my aquariums and while some would argue it is not very good or very attractive it has a...
There is a fellow in florida who is selling f1 winkelfleck.
wetspot (https://www.wetspottropicalfish.com/?s=apistogramma) has a. borelli for sale.
This presumes you live in usa but of course you did not specify your country so if you live in europe you will need to try elsewhere.
Shipping...
Man - when you said 'amazon' i was thinking not more garbage from amazon but it is the Amazon as oppose to amazon. I've seen a few of those videos and the ones i've seen have been pretty decent.
Fascinating reading - you use a water softner prior to the ro membrane since sodium won't hurt the membrane as much as mg/ca - however and this is an open issue fishes require trace amounts of mg/ca even blackwater fishes and soften water has mostly sodium so does the food or final solution...
Unless you are very very experienced this is a fish that belongs in a 40b; though some would argue a 20 long is more than enough. The males can be a bit larger than your average apistogramma male and the female a bit more aggressive when she has frys though individual fishes have different behavior.
This is mostly for @dw1305 and @Ben Rhau
A water softener for well water uses ion exchange to remove hard minerals (calcium and magnesium) and often iron, replacing them with sodium (not salt).
Alternatives: If you need a sodium-free option, you can use potassium chloride in the brine tank...
You can but you can also bind with the kh (or maybe it is gh) to form more complex elements - i was dealing with some information on hard water from a well (500+ tds) and how water softner work on them. I didn't take the time or had the desire to understand the chemistry of the claim but either...
This is an over simplification i think though it depends on the volume of water you need to produce. First there is maintance on ro unit primiarly in the form of membrane and filters. Then there is waste water to consider - the better units are more expensive but will be 1:1 or 1:2 (1 good 2...
My vague understanding (@dw1305 can correct me) is that you can remove kh by converting it to salt; though this is probably even worse for the fish. At the end of the day ph is an artifiical number and what you want to do is remove kh from your water (and for that matter gh if your fishes are...
This is another interesting tetra i picked up recently called
Hemigrammus sp."Yurimaguas" "Peru Orange Tetra":
It has some interesting behavior - when i first received it they hid under driftwood and leaves much like dwarf cichild. After 4 or 5 days it began to realize i was feeding it and...
I grind up my pellets - all my dwarf cichild will eat them - i have a couple that seem to go a bit more bonkers on frozen brine-shrimp day but in truth it is only a little. I find grinding it up makes it easier esp for smaller fishes.
In truth i read about how fishes are 'picky' but ever dwarf...
Mr. Google indicates some were sold 6+ years ago; sounds like they come from near guyana which rarely export fishes these days due to lack of interest in the industry ? Are yours wc or tr ?