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  1. Aquaticloch

    Male and female juveinata?

    Yes they look to me like a male and female macmasteri, true Viejita are not often seen in the hobby.
  2. Aquaticloch

    Apistogramma ID help please

    It does look like a male with the fins but most domestic agassizii females now have spangling and coloured fins. The dark spot too, and showing those colours for a year makes me think it’s a female. Also the fact that the dorsal is quite small. If there are no other males in the tank I think the...
  3. Aquaticloch

    Apistogramma ID help please

    Looks like the ID is correct
  4. Aquaticloch

    Apistogramma and Kribensis in a tank?

    I agree with macZ, Bolivian rams and (balloon) mikrogeophagus ramirezi as well as corydoras trilineatus, gouramis and garras all in the same tank is a recipe for disaster. They all require drastically different parameters. Just because it may have worked for years does not mean you are not...
  5. Aquaticloch

    Is this a female Apisto Rio mamore

    That is indeed an erythrura male, and a female which looks like baenschi.
  6. Aquaticloch

    Agassizii infertility?

    I would generally disagree with what you said here, Agaaaizii are and have been domesticated for dozens of generations and decades of time, such as this morph shown on this post. After so long, adapting to common conditions kept in aquaria they do not still have the same amount of calcification...
  7. Aquaticloch

    Harems or Single Pairs?

    what species, and how much agression is there?
  8. Aquaticloch

    Male or female??

    I’m going to hazard a guess: I think it’s a female but ad Mac said it’s hard to tell.
  9. Aquaticloch

    Hongsloi m/f identification

    First of all, thats a nice male apistogramma hongsloi and a nannacara anomala female. I have no clue how that mix-up occurred, but they are incompatible together. I know that others answering this thread will likely be quite harsh about the substrate, lack of live plants, decor, and hardscape...
  10. Aquaticloch

    Apistogramma cf. Agassizii (netz) eggs don’t hatch

    Sorry, poorly worded, I meant TDS as Ben Rhau was saying, and you'll need a lower TDS in order to have the eggs hatch. In actuality, pH won't be as affected by the peat as it would be with a much lower TDS. So if you had a lower TDS the same amount of peat would lower the pH much more.
  11. Aquaticloch

    Apistogramma cf. Agassizii (netz) eggs don’t hatch

    Peat wont lower the pH much if the TDS is that high. In order to hatch the eggs you'll either need to collect rainwater, use partial RO water, or distilled.
  12. Aquaticloch

    Rio Atabapo

    Temporarily, I'd lower the hours of light further, 10 hours is substantial. Green algae and cyano is stubborn, I might even consider cutting lights for a while if you have no other plants in the aquarium. It looks like you have some young Monstera delisciosa or a type of philodendron, which...
  13. Aquaticloch

    Rio Atabapo

    Yeah, unfortunately thats cyanobacteria. I've just finished a fight with it lasting a while. It's stubbornly resilient and shockingly fast-growing.
  14. Aquaticloch

    Hi from the US

    yes it is steel blue female.
  15. Aquaticloch

    Hi from the US

    Do you know how common female "Steel-Blue" are? I have never personally seen one personally, or any posted about on this site or any other.
  16. Aquaticloch

    Hi from the US

    Welcome to the site. This is not A. Borelli. This a domesticated hybrid known as A. "Steel-Blue".
  17. Aquaticloch

    How big should a breeding/grow out tank be?

    Breeding 3 species in one tank is very difficult, especially apistos and corys (my two top genus im breeding currently.) A general rule for breeding wild corys, especially lineage 8 is a massive im talking 50-80% waterchange with water that is roughly 6-7°F cooler. What i usually do is take...
  18. Aquaticloch

    How big should a breeding/grow out tank be?

    Personally, what I'd do is remove the fry or eggs (after the fish have spawned a few times) and raise them in the 70 litre or so tank, which makes it easier to feed them. Once they are around 1.5-2cm transfer them to the 55 gallon and remove the parents, and add the parents to the 70 or so litre...
  19. Aquaticloch

    Ro system

    If your TDS is lower than 200ppm you should be able to breed, and keep domesticated fish like cacatuodies, borelli, macmasteri. If you have harder water, or you are purchasing near wild fish they still do not need full RO whatsoever, so i'd reccomend checking water parameters before doing so...
  20. Aquaticloch

    Hillstream Loaches And Breeding

    I think that loach tanks are generally very different from apistos in water conditions, temperament and hardscape requirements. Definitely better for both fishes to be seperate, as you said the loach would be very boisterous and also they may eat the apisto eggs. Going off on a bit of tangent...
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