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  1. TCMontium

    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    (This isn't a thread about hatchetfish, sorry to jump in like this.) I am very amazed and puzzled by the amound of posts I read about hatchetfish needing to eat live food (Fruit flies, mosquito larvae etc.) just to survive longer than a few months in captivity. I have been keeping mostly C...
  2. TCMontium

    Detailed Apistogramma books

    I need recommendations for book with detailed information on Apistogramma (and other dwarf cichlid) species and/or their biology and/or their natural environment and/or any other detailed information. I started with buying Cichliden Atlas vol.2 by Uwe Römer, thinking that it would contain all...
  3. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    I guess the eggs really are just not fertilized. I just shot some more photos and they look the same as yesterday. I only use RO water, there shouldn't be any metals in the water. Apistos were breeding with no problems in this water, just the Dicrossus are being hard. My pH is somewhere around...
  4. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    Out of more than a hundred eggs, after 24 hours, only 50-ish are left. Is there a problem with the water or is this a normal loss rate for Dicrossus spp.? The eggs keep turning white one by one and the female keeps removing the white eggs. Maybe she hits the eggs with her fins too much and...
  5. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    It has been nearly 20 hours since the successful spawn was laid. But some eggs turn white out of nowhere. They look all healthy and after a few minutes I look again at the eggs and 1 or 2 of them are half white with maybe some deformed shape. Are the shells or something inside the shells...
  6. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    Just before and after the eggs were laid 2 different pond snail egg-blobs disappeared, meaning that snails hatched around the time dicrossus laid her eggs. The most possible answer is that these are pond snail (Physa sp.) hatchlings. But I will try to take closer photos if I ever see one again...
  7. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    There are no snail eggs. There are snail hatchlings on the dicrossus eggs, eating them. I think they must be snail hatchlings anyway.
  8. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    Well, I found out something I would never even think of. Life is full of surprises and murphy's law exists. When I shot some macros of the eggs today, which were being artificially cared for nearly 3 days, I saw dozens of tiny balls on the eggs. Guess what! I had pond snails in that aquarium…...
  9. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    I would give her more chances (even though this is like the 4th spawn) but I have to give away all my fish in August/September. I only have near a month of time to have fry, so that I can grow them enough during the summer. Any advice on artificial hatching? Would it be dangerous for the eggs if...
  10. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    I did put the tip of an air hose next to the eggs. The leaf they are on is vibrating with the current that the bubbles are creating. I hope this isn't too much movement for the healthy developement of the eggs. The lights are closed, the only is the dim light of the window and from other...
  11. TCMontium

    Dicrossus female not a caring mom

    My female Dicrossus filamentosus had 2 or 3 clutches before with a male and all of them disappeared in maybe 5-8 hours. I had some Sturisoma and the male left in the aquarium back then and the TDS measure was 60 ppm, so, I thought one of these was the reason that the eggs were eaten. Or maybe...
  12. TCMontium

    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    Do you have any idea why? Maybe a big water change, ph drop, conductivity drop or increase of live food? I have a pair and the male is always following the female, flaring to her. But she just doesn't seem interested. I need to know how to make her feel playful! :p
  13. TCMontium

    Pairing different locals and color varieties

    Hello everyone, I should begin with an apology in case this subject was already discussed on these forums. I couldn't find much information about this subject (maybe that's because I didn't know the correct words to search for). My question is: What happens to the genetics and/or the...
  14. TCMontium

    1.60m South American biotope

    Is this an even bigger tank? I look at your designs and fish with admiration everytime you post some visuals. :D
  15. TCMontium

    What to use to lower ph to 4

    I added some cones and a catappa l eaf into the aquarium and did some RO water change. This morning I found the female guarding eggs (and cornering the male, scaring him shitless! I removed him.). They were not many and almost completely see-through. The female was checking them every 15 seconds...
  16. TCMontium

    What to use to lower ph to 4

    Thanks Mike! I read in many websites that people could only manage to make the eggs hatch into larvae at ph lower than 5.5 or even lower than 5.0, so that is why I felt the need of lowering my ph even more. There is also the "filamentosus are encountered in wild at ph as low as 3.5!" deal...
  17. TCMontium

    What to use to lower ph to 4

    I have an aquarium with neutral sand, neutral filter material, some semi-dense planting, a couple of coconut caves and some dead plant matter in a corner. I used only RO water (ph 6.0-ish, "TDS" 20) for the whole one and a half years that this aquarium was set up. And finally, my water...
  18. TCMontium

    Greetings from Finland

    Hello! Feel free to share photos and videos of your fish and aquariums; and to ask questions if you have any. :) When I went to Helsinki, there were some very nice and fancy local fish stores. I would love to see more from finnish aquariums. :D
  19. TCMontium

    My Blue Ram (Mikrogeophagus.ramirezi) Breeding Log

    Are you sure that they can't eat BBS? They are 4-5 days old as free-swimmers, so they could have grown enough to eat BBS, right? Trying wouldn't hurt.
  20. TCMontium

    HI from Phoenix, Arizona

    Hello! The unidentified female fish looks really strange to me. I don't think it is an Apistogramma, but the photo is not clear really, I am not sure.
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