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  1. TCMontium

    the luxury problem - baenschi breeding

    Around 1 cm is pretty small. I think they might be bite-sized for adult males, but I don't know how big and aggressive your males are. You can try putting 1 or 2 fry and see what happens, if you aren't certain about their aggression. I sell my fry when they are grown around 3,5-4 cm, that's when...
  2. TCMontium

    Which Apisto Species?

    Wild fish have a risk of dying quite early due to internal parasites and other problems. They might be harder to breed too. I prefer captive bred specimens mostly (except if captive breds are really bad looking or sick). Health put aside, some people like the slender body form of agassizii-like...
  3. TCMontium

    Wild caught Apisto ID needed please

    Definately not ortegai (Papagei), but I don't know which species. Urteagai seems like a good guess with the spoy on the tail base, little amound of caudal patterns and blue with spotted pattern on the anal fin. But again, I don't know, I am not an expert with most Aapisto species.
  4. TCMontium

    Only Dry Season parameters

    Hello everyone, It is well know that the easiest time to collect fish in South America is the dry season (changes from around October to January depending on the area I guess) and all the temperature, pH and conductivity measurements in the habitats are done in this season as far as I can see...
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    • Forum: Water Chemistry
  5. TCMontium

    Tannic, Humic, Fluvic, etc.

    I will interrupt my own thread, but I didn't understand this sentence in the link at all: "Yes, peat softens water by exchanging humic acids for magnesium and calcium but this requires active peat filtration (the water running over the peat itself). The resulting “tea” itself has no such...
  6. TCMontium

    Tannic, Humic, Fluvic, etc.

    Hello, I apologize beforehand if these questions were answered many times previously in these forums or other aquatic websites. Maybe I just couldn't find the right keywords to find any of those threads and articles. My questions are: - Since the Amazon Basin water (especially blackwater...
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    • blackwater fulvic fulvicacid humic humicacid peat peatmoss rionegro tannic tannicacid
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    • Forum: Water Chemistry
  7. TCMontium

    Wild Bitaeniata experience?

    There are many apisto species, so I can not compare them to most, but as far as I could see in my and my friends' aquariums, they are just as cocky as other species when a male becomes dominant or a pair starts breeding. Other than these scenerios, they seem shy and simple like most other...
  8. TCMontium

    Sexing some dwarf cichlids

    It seems to me that you have a macmasteri pair, but the sexes are the opposites. Or is the fish in the first two photos so yellow because of yellowish lighting/flash? Other than the yellow coloration, "his" tail has no tips either, which is very common in macmasteri males. So that is another...
  9. TCMontium

    A. norberti?

    The markers show the reported original location the specimens were found, but as I said, not all the rivers the species inhabit. Some species inhabit several rivers in hundreds of kilometers, some are more local. It might be the case that these species are only found in a few kilometers along a...
  10. TCMontium

    A. norberti?

    Some markers on that map aren't even on rivers. More importantly, markers do not show the rivers a species is distributed to. If we do not have collection data suggesting otherwise, than IMHO this distance seems very short for the two species to not share any river as their common habitat.
  11. TCMontium

    Spawning in the wild frequency?

    Well, then (I guess a rhetorical question does not need an answer, but I will answer anyway :oops:) the answer is: They "let the nature decide" and the fry gets eaten by other fish in the aquarium. Or just starve to death because giving live food to fry is "unnatural" and they need to eat...
  12. TCMontium

    Spawning in the wild frequency?

    What do you mean exactly? Can you explain what "them" are? By "everyone that wants to keep apistos" do you mean the people, who want to just keep apisto pairs but not reproduce them?
  13. TCMontium

    Ideal temperature for ideal sex ratio

    If you have many females already waiting for males, then you might want to increase the temperature not just to 26, but to 28-29. This will make sure that most of the fry are going to be males, if not all. And they will grow fast! But there is also the idea that if you keep the temperatures too...
  14. TCMontium

    Ideal temperature for ideal sex ratio

    That is very cold, as far as I know 25 celcius is approx. the temperature for 1:1 sex ratio without counting the effect of ph. I once had 100% males with 27-28 celcius and 5.0-5.5 pH when I grew 25 A. cf. ortegai "pebas" fry (just 2 deaths from 27 hatchlings). I assume if your pH is higher than...
  15. TCMontium

    Advice on motherless fry

    Good thing they mostly survived and grew. I raised lone T. candidi fry just like this too. Bbs and frequent water changes works really well but hydra is a problem that need to be taken care of quickly. Can we at least see the fish once? I have never heard of this species before, google images...
  16. TCMontium

    Agasazzi id help

    That is an interesting one, Badis sp. (I don't know which species it exactly is or if it is a male or female)! :D I never heard a Badis being sold as a mate for an apisto before.
  17. TCMontium

    Agasazzi id help

    Looks like some kind of Acara to me, but photos are not detailed enough to tell.
  18. TCMontium

    Ideal temperature for ideal sex ratio

    With which species at what temperatures did you get 1:5 male-female ratio? Do you know the ph levels they grew in too by any chance?
  19. TCMontium

    Mike Wise's amazing 2017-revised list of more than 400 species / forms of Apistogramma

    I do know that there are many aspects to define a species, what I meant was not "If they breed, they are a species.". :D I mean to say that breeding also helps identifying a species, so it would help to identify species more correctly if "hybritisation" experiments were made between species that...
  20. TCMontium

    Mike Wise's amazing 2017-revised list of more than 400 species / forms of Apistogramma

    There are many "species" listed that do look very simalar and live relatively close to eachother (like the seperately listed "agassizi", "pebas", "hongsloi" etc. species). Even though they might be different species, I highly doubt it (of course, my knowledge of Apistogramma spp. is very little...
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