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As of last night there were still a few fry with the female. Another female also has fry, but I see her only rarely as she is mainly staying in a very dark secluded area of the tank. The first female comes out in the open at the front quite frequently.
Well its been a long time since I posted an update on these fish. I have had a lot going on recently and have not spent as much time on the forums. Anyway, in September I moved all the small fish to a bigger tank - 130 x 50 x 50 cm, 325l or about 86 gallons. I moved all the plants wood...
It seems like I was lucky with my wild cacatuoides. The agassizii male though was a real terror, even attacking cichlids bigger than him, and allowing no other Apistogramma to coexist with him in a 240l well structured tank, he wouldn't just chase them away, he would hunt them down.
Mine were pretty calm with other fishes, no where near as aggressive as the male agassizii that came with them. I had a few but they all turned out to be males. The first picture is the one that immediately became dominant, the one in the second picture only started to look like a male after I...
One didn't upload for some reason...I had these papers in my computer as a few years ago I was trying to id my Copellas...if time I will look for any newer ones.
Well that post hasn't appeared, I am not sure if I am allowed to attach the papers but will try, one I think is the one you have already seen; the other (earlier) describes C. nattered, and the supplementary material one lists two species from the lower Tapajos, natterreri and callolepis.
Here is the whole tank, not a great shot and I think the glass needs cleaning! As I mentioned, it is a bit more bare than usual, the plants, including the floating plants, which usually have much longer roots, are only just growing back since I took the whole tank apart recently. I want to get...
Yes, meinkeni is a Junior synonym of nattereri. I posted about this last night and linked the paper, but moderators are still looking at the post apparently so can’t be seen yet.
Sure - I will take photo of the whole tank later - too many reflections just now. Breeding - we will see, it would be interesting but not necessarily a main goal. I do have some other fish in the tank, some N.marginatus, ruby tetras and a few Copellas, also the same person I got these from...
After many months I decided to abandon the dwarf pike breeding project as a lost cause. I put the pair back in the big tank, freeing up the 240l tank for small fishes again. And for the first time in ages saw some wild Apistogrammas advertised and decided to give them a go. I ordered 6...
According to this paper on Copella taxonomy, C. Meinkeni is a junior synonym of C. Nattereri, which does occur in the mouth of the Tapajós.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5560855/
I also have some Copella that I am not sure about…
Well the bitaeniata are still quite small, and the tank is fairly tall (50cm, just under 20”) and does
I tried to reply to the messages last night, we had a power cut and something went wrong, not sure exactly what happened.
Anyway, the tank I have for small fish is fairly tall for its size...
I did once have some mortenthaleri but was sent only males, they didn’t live very long, about 2 years I think, whereas the beckfords I had lasted much longer and bred with a few young surviving. I almost got some Amaya a while back, but they were going to be all males as well, so I decided...
Interesting that your marginatus clump up, mine are all over, on the first day they did keep together and swam to and fro in a school, but that soon stopped.
I agree it’s really hard to get a good photo of small fish, I haven’t managed with the ruby tetras yet! From the photos I can’t really...
Ah right yes sorry, I have recently got some of those they are very nice and very active all over the tank, not sure what variety they are, probably standard though the look goldish in some lights
I’m not familiar with the margaritas - do you have pictures of those?
The morse code tetras are another that look attractive and I’d like to get, as they are from Peru I suppose there is a chance they might show up here one day!