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  1. TCMontium

    Water parameters of South American rivers

    Thanks a lot, Am I mistaken or do both maps show the same values? In some locations there is only ph and in most locations there is ph, temperature and EC values plus sometimes even more information such as NO3 or O2.
  2. TCMontium

    ortegai

    Prominent bars and seemingly only yellow coloration with just a little bit of blue dots really do look different from A. cf. ortegai males of any size. Again, maybe A. ortegai males do have different colors or maybe females can have prominent bars and naturally have yellow coloration. I am not...
  3. TCMontium

    ortegai

    If the male has orange/yellow and purple/red in the caudal fin, then they are A. ortegai as far as I know (are there any other similar species with a similar caudal fin coloration? A species in eunotus-complex maybe? I don’t know), but pronounced vertical bars sound suspicious. I don’t remember...
  4. TCMontium

    ortegai

    Photographs of the second spawn that had at least one female (23-24 Celcius, pH 5,0-5,5): - First 2 photos are from 7 weeks of age, looks like they were 1 cm long and they weren’t sexable to me at all! Males in the first spawn were mostly bigger and most (except the smallest few) already...
  5. TCMontium

    ortegai

    I have bred A. cf. ortegai and the males were “really colorful” already at around 14 weeks of age (2,5-3,5 cm). Males were obvious by that time from colors and behavior, in my experience, but I guess sneaker males would be a possibility if you have too many males in a small area. Furthermore, I...
  6. TCMontium

    Pellets or flakes food for Apisto

    I have also had and still having great results with Hikari Micro Pellets. My apistos, Taeniacara, Dicrossus, bettas, characins, banjo catfish and pretty much any other carnivorous-omnivorous creature just swallows it right away (or bites small pieces of it, if their mouth is too small, the...
  7. TCMontium

    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

    I spoke too soon about the Dicrossus female… Today I came home and:
  8. TCMontium

    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

    Thankfully I didn’t have my hopes up, this batch was gone at the 2./3. day too. Now the candidi female is swimming around as usual again and she has a particularly long sting of poop hanging from her anus. I don’t think I fed her so much yesterday, so maybe that’s from all the eggs she ate...
  9. TCMontium

    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

    You wish :rolleyes: I will start having hope (for candidi) after I add alder cones or peat moss, increase temperature to 28-29C and buy some air pumps. Even more hope will be there if I can remove the pond snails too.
  10. TCMontium

    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

    True. I was thinking of the possibility of having a different species since there are many similar looking snail species even from different genuses, as you said, but the possibility of mine being a rare species is slim. I only use commercial plants etc. so they must be a frequent species of...
  11. TCMontium

    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

    Thank you very much. I suppose they were just eating the dead eggs or cleaning the surface of the eggs. I read about and have seen photos of Malaysian Trumpet Snails “rearing” pleco eggs so I didn’t doubt they would be helpful. I was just worried since different snail species might have...
  12. TCMontium

    Detritus, decaying plant matter, mulm, disintegrated catappa leaves

    Thank, I will try alder cones. I do have heaters, I just kept the temps low because at least for T. candidi there are reports of fry being too small to eat artemia nauplii if they are incubated at a temperature above 25-26 celcius. In Cichlid Atlas Vol. 1 it is said that incubation at 23 celcius...
  13. TCMontium

    Detritus, decaying plant matter, mulm, disintegrated catappa leaves

  14. TCMontium

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    Ramshorn possibly egg predator

  16. TCMontium

    sex ratios

    No problem, English works just fine as well. Thanks. I believe these results are also shown in the Cichlid Atlas Vol. 1 by Uwe Römer, but I have to check again to see if the species, ratios and dates etc. are the same.
  17. TCMontium

    sex ratios

    I can read german and once searched for that monograph but couldn’t find it on the internet. Would you happen to know where I can read it? Only as physical copy or are there electronic copies in some websites too?
  18. TCMontium

    Effects of ions like Ca and Mg etc. on skeletal developement

    Hello, Does anyone know any scientific study about the correlation between Apistogramma skeletal development and conductivity/TDS of water or specificly the calcium-ion content? Or any such study of fish that naturally found in waters that have similar ion/conductivity related parameters to the...
  19. TCMontium

    Apistogramma mendezi pair or males

    The seller insists saying that the fish with the damaged tail fin is a female. The tail fin did not heal at all in more than a month of time, so I can not wait and show obvious the tail shape unfortunately. First 6 photos were taken at arrival on 18th of August, before opening the bag. Last...
  20. TCMontium

    WTB Apistogramma rositae

    Yes.
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