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Instead of focusing on apistogramma i would view as i know have an aquarium big enough for dwarf cichild. Really some of the central american dwarf cichild are very nice just beware that some love plants.
Well if the convict miss-behaves you can send him back to jail and try a rainbow cichild ( Herotilapia multispinosa); you aren't changing water chemistry for these fishes just picking one that prefer the chemistry you have. The advantage of the convict is that it is a smaller fish. There are...
I have some fishes that hide for years and others that never hide - nothing seems to change that. The weirdest or maybe predict able thing is that I've had fishes i've moved from one aquarium to another and they respond by never letting me see them again.
As i said i completely missed the water parameters. the two species that might do ok in harder water are pucallpaensis and borelli but gh 15 isn't harder water - that is close to liquid rock and quite frankly i would not put any softwater fish in water that hard.
My tap water is harder water...
Well one thing that would help in a big way is reducing the water hardness to something more acceptable for the apisto - bringing the ec down to 40 or so should put a real damper on those endlers.
I missed the water but wanted to point out that many dwarf cichild make excellent predators - one of the best i ever had was nannacara amolae. He would hunt all day long relentless.
I find pucallpaensis pair forming with the male willing to have other females - they are generally less aggressive than other species though not sure they are less than borelli
baenshi are pair forming
The others are polgyamous but as to the number it depends on the size of the aquarium - put...
These two pictures where provided as an import by someone with mix species:
They were suppose to be columbia bitaeniata which i believe the nicer ones are - but the ones with band look odd - a bit of searching and the only two species i could find with veritcal band were mitu and psammophila...
The typical min suggested for breeding+full time home is 20 long and this can work for not too active species for long period of times. I'm finding now that i am older and well can spend more that 65s work even better (48x16) or 95 (48x24); height of course over 8 or 12 inches does not matter...
I've not kept these but from what I have read your water needs to be softer and perhaps more acidic. While probably not an issue they recommend the temperature closer to 26 or 27c.
google translate indicate this is Vietnamese - a rarity on these forums:
Hello everyone,
This marks my second failed attempt at breeding *I. adoketa*.
On both occasions, the spawning process proceeded smoothly, with the male and female taking turns laying and fertilizing the eggs.
However...
a. pucallpaensis work well and they are not bad fishes; the ones i had did fine in tap water which was gh 6 kh 3 tds 140 for myself. the only odd thing is the frys would not grow to full size until put in a larger container but they did mature and did not appear to be runts. a. borelli can work...
I have a set of f1 nijjensi somewhere between 6 and 10 months old. the largest 2 or 3 are 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inch and the smallest are around 1/4 to 1/2 inch (big divergence). I only have 9 and want a new pair from the group but am having a difficult time sexing them because they keep morphing their...