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  1. TCMontium

    Filtration for Apisto Aquariums

    If you plan to grow the fry in the same aquarium for a few week/months or you want to have also some fry-safe fish like hatchetfish, some pencilfish, farlowellas, otocinclus etc. then you might want to get an external filter with more filtering power and volume for biological filter material...
  2. TCMontium

    A. paucisquamis

    My female mendezi doesn’t have any patterns on the caudal fin as far as I can observe. Does the paucisquamis females have a pattern on the caudal fin? The video doesn’t really show the details. I am yet to see any drawings or descriptions about the differences on the lateral sub band(s) but...
  3. TCMontium

    A. paucisquamis

    Congratulations. I miss seeing such surprises. By the way the female looks just like my mendezi female (I guess it is obviously the case since the two species are closely related). I wonder if there are any morphological differences between the females of the two species at all.
  4. TCMontium

    Sexing A erythrura

    A bulky male.
  5. TCMontium

    Impact of diet on fertility and embryo mortality

    I don‘t know if this isn‘t normal in Germany, but since my city is maybe the 40th most crowded city in Germany, I wasn‘t surprized to see them not using live food. The club doesn‘t have anyone breeding any species in particular, just keeping the fish they have happy and growing fry if any...
  6. TCMontium

    FEMALE MENDEZI ID QUESTION

    Mendezi females have just one lateral spot and very little to no coloration on the caudal fin as far as I observed on my female and could see on the internet. Maybe this is an Apistogramma elizabethae? The photo quality is very low though and not all the fins are clearly visible.
  7. TCMontium

    Vacation Care

    Automatic feeders usually work for weeks to months (battery lasts maybe even for a year, the food runs out first, usually). For how long of a time are you going away?
  8. TCMontium

    Impact of diet on fertility and embryo mortality

    I already am a member of a local Aquarium club. :D They said they never used live food in last 10-20 years, but they might have just referred to the fish in the club building and might be using some live food for their fish at home. I will ask them more about the live food options, thanks for...
  9. TCMontium

    Impact of diet on fertility and embryo mortality

    I am not german and came here only 9 months ago, maybe that‘s why. :rolleyes: I have never heard of mosquito larvae being found in just rain water deposits. I haven‘t even seen any water bins or anything like that to begin with. Do you know where I might find any? I don‘t have a garden, I can‘t...
  10. TCMontium

    Impact of diet on fertility and embryo mortality

    I would give live foods but I tried to breed daphnia and failed several times. I have whiteworms right now and they breed very slowly. Brine shrimp eggs are too expensive to feed nauplii often to adult fish. Other live foods I can find and breed in Germany do not come to my mind.
  11. TCMontium

    Impact of diet on fertility and embryo mortality

    I have 2 spawning pairs of Apistogramma atahualpa and Apistogramma mendezi. Both spawned at least 4 times, maybe even 5-7 times in the last 3-4 months. Neither hatched fry from these spawns or if they did (which is unlikely), the fry never survived to the free swimming stage. I found a single...
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  12. TCMontium

    Feeding German Blue Ram Fry

    You are lucky if you found enough Paramecium caudatum to feed them until they can switch to BBS, Paramecium are rare to find as pure cultures, at least in my experience.
  13. TCMontium

    How to sex. Borellii opal juveniles around 3cm?

    Everything that you listed are correct. I don't know why people would say Borelli is a species that is hard to sex at this age. Females have black coloration on frontal area of the pelvic fins. Females also do not have the colorful fins with blue, yellow and red like males do. The facial...
  14. TCMontium

    Ooops, dropped to 5 ppm TDS

    That's good to know. I never calibrated it, bought it 2-3 years ago, it was very cheap too (maybe 10-15 dollars). But is it measuring wrong if when I test it with bottled water, the TDS reading is nearly the same as the given value written on the bottle? I did this with several brands and the...
  15. TCMontium

    Ooops, dropped to 5 ppm TDS

    Something very unusual happened. The water in one of my aquariums has the TDS reading of 5 ppm, which means the device is measuring a conductivity of approx. 9 microsiemens (my TDS-Meter has a seemingly inconsistent multiplier which seems to multiply higher conductivity water with bigger values...
  16. TCMontium

    A. sp Miua courting

    The red belly “worms” are so cute! I wish my females didn’t hide them in the blindest blind spots for once. :D
  17. TCMontium

    Hello from New Zealand

    Two fish in the first photo are some species of Hemichromis. Second has a sick A. cacatuoides (above) and a (I guess?) A. macmasteri (below). Third pic is a pair of A. cacatuoides (if the one that "is" a male isn't actually a very colorful female).
  18. TCMontium

    Tucurui spawned!

    Sleeping Dicrossus are nearly teleporting when startled/touched. You can still catch them easier in the dark if you are lucky though. I collected 5 out of my 6 juvenile Dicrossus from a community aquarium in just 2 tries with a bottle trap with their favorite food inside (along with some...
  19. TCMontium

    What beginner plants do you think work best w apistos? (33 gal)

    I try to use south american native plants in general. My substrates are either nonexistent or JBL Sansibar. I either leave plants with the sponge-plastic pot they came in or leave them floating. My water values usually are: pH 5.0-6.0, dgH 0-3, dkH 0-3, conductivity 30-80 microSiemens, 24-30C...
  20. TCMontium

    Cacatuoides pair? Or 2 males?

    Sorry to jump in with an unrelated question to the topic, but I can't be sure what your fish at the bottom are. Are they loachs? Gudgeons? Characins (like Darter Characins)? Or a native american bottom-dweller fish (Darterfish?)?
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