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  1. tjudy

    Check out my blooming crinum!

    The plant did produce seeds which were released into the tank when the pod rotted away very quickly. I can seen three or four that have germinated, but there are probably more.
  2. tjudy

    Is Black Diamond safe for German Blue Rams?

    I have used it in the past, but I do not like it because it is less dense than gravel... which means that it is hard to 'vacuum'. It is also very sharp, and there are very fine particles, so I would not want to keep it with sand-sifting (earth eating) fish.
  3. tjudy

    How??? Help needed urgently...

    If you can, I would not place the fry in the new tank with the parents. Since they are free swimming you can raise them separate from the parents. The process of moving that group may disturb the parents enough that they no longer care for the fry.
  4. tjudy

    hello from canada

    Welcome to the forum!
  5. tjudy

    Wild A. Agassizi Yellow Alenquer???

    Naja guadalupiensis.... guppy grass... that is what it looks like.
  6. tjudy

    Disaster!!! Please help!!!

    Sorry to hear that you are having problems. When fish drop off one at a time, or the numbers that die increase over time (one, then two, then four,...), the cause is most often a pathogen. If there are no or very few physical signs of distress, other than lethargy and/or rapid breathing, then...
  7. tjudy

    A. Agassizi sexing and compatibility

    Looks like a female to me.
  8. tjudy

    Hi From Oklahoma

    Welcome to the forum!
  9. tjudy

    September Photo of the Month Contest

    Apistogramma only?
  10. tjudy

    Check out my blooming crinum!

    If it is a large pod, it is a very slow-growing large pod....
  11. tjudy

    Check out my blooming crinum!

    Actually... it did! I did not think that the blooms germinated, because I did nto see any swelling of the ovary within a week of the blooms fading. But I did not cut the bloom stem off, and after a few weeks the seed pods started to form. They are very slow maturing though. As of right now...
  12. tjudy

    Help with diagnosis Sick Ram needs help

    Possibly a protozoan parasite (most likely hexamita), which is why metro is usually effective. Bacterial infection will also be present, but often secondary to damage by the protozoan. Metro is also a mild antibiotic.
  13. tjudy

    Help with diagnosis Sick Ram needs help

    Sounds like bloat. Unfortunately, once small fish like rams have bloated to where it is very obvious it may be too late to save them. There will always be some debate about how to treat bloat in a ram/apisto, but I have had the most success increasing the temperature up to 82-84, treating with...
  14. tjudy

    Confirmation Laetacara please

    Yes... that is L. araguaia...
  15. tjudy

    P. sacrimontis redescribed

    The 1977 Paulo description of P. sacrimontis has been debated for 15 years, mostly due to the lack of a neotype in the description. Anton Lamboj defended Paulo's description in 1999, and was the first author (that I know of) to use the P. sacrimontis name in a major book publication (Lamboj's...
  16. tjudy

    fish from Asian style tank vs that from Western world natural tank

    If the eggs are infertile the female will remove them from the plaque as they start to fungus... could be as long as 3-4 days. If the pH is very low, the eggs may not fungus, but the female will instinctively expect the eggs to hatch within a couple days, and when they do not she may eat them.
  17. tjudy

    Black spots on Apistogramma eunotus

    If the spots were on the fish when you bought it, then they are probably the harmless 'parasite' that arrives with many wild fish. IF the fish was clear of spots and then developed them, the culprit may be skin flukes... which are also pretty harmless, but treatable. Praziquantel knocks it off...
  18. tjudy

    fish from Asian style tank vs that from Western world natural tank

    Though I understand what you are trying to do, you are still making a lot of false assumptions when you try to define a 'western' aquarium. The next time you are over here, please stop by the house and I will show you how I keep my tanks. Color in a fish will be determined by four factors...
  19. tjudy

    How to mimic deep leaf litter?

    @halmiris... I have had several spawns of both species, and have had good sex ratios. I did try to spawn the P. brevirostris as a colony without any success, but I have since separate a mature pair to get more fry.
  20. tjudy

    Africanfish

    Looks great! Thanks for sharing...
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