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Epiplatys annulatus - i've kept them but not with apisto - they seem a bit fragile and didn't particularly stay near the top but no clue if they would go after frys.
Well there are a couple of tetra that stay near the top - like humming bird (kind of expensive and not esp pretty); ruby tetra don't hang near the top per sey but are quite small - in truth i'm not sure if they would go after the frys. Not a tetra but kubotai rasbora will stay in the upper 1/5...
No - and there are different level of aggression from different species. nijjensi are more or less pair forming in the aquarium. They are also relatively easy to keep but require acidic water with hardness below around 80 tds to breed. This is an old male i had:
Also I'm finding a. sp...
macs are not pair forming any suitable female that wonders into the male territory is fair game; the only catch is that if he will be aggressive towards her is she is not interested in breeding and this might be why your previous female 'passed away'.
Just a heads up 'orange flash' is a made up name not a species name so you will probably want to view the adult male/female to make sure that person's 'orange flash' matches what you think 'orange flash' represents.
After all a cockatoo is a cockatoo no matter what name you put on it to...
I guess but some behave differently then others....
Looks like she only had 9 to 11 frys (which is similar to last 2 times); like the wolli she keeps them on the sponge filter (food i suppose) and she scoots off when i feed them bbs via a pipette -
This is very different to the kribs which...
btw this is the aquarium - it is a 65 - 48 long and 16 wide (inches); unfortunately it is taken from the not so dense area on the right while the fishes mostly stay on the left in front of the plant line which is approx 1/2 inch next to the glass:
I'm not sure why almost nothing hangs ou on the...
2 years late just some updated pictures since my female spawned again; a little surprise since their total age is probably around 3 years:
Male without flash:
Flash to bring out some colour - i normally use a flash light when i want to see in the aquarium:
He is a lot more purple then the...
I see them not too rarely but most are cz bred. Occasionally i see wc ones but it has been a while - more than several years.
Fortunately or unfortunately i won't buy cz fishes any more.
Not a good idea for several reasons. First you are way over stocking. I woudl reduce the venz cory to 10 or 12 and get rid of the bn.
I'm rather confused by your ph vs the water hardness which seems low. Either i don't understand the numbers or i would expect the ph to be around 6.5.
A single...
I think you over simplify things because one has to have sufficient experience to recognize when you need to sep male/female that are aggressive to each other - the optimal being to put the male and female in 2 different aquariums side by side and move the female when she is ready (this is...
apistogramm baenschi are also pair forming and not unsimilar to panduro though i've not kept them and don't know aggression level to other fishes. Btw 'technically' they are breeding season pair forming though in the aquarium i've mostly seen them behave as quasi-pair forming with the female...
From that list the only ones i would consider (not because they are small or good fit) are panduro because they are pair forming and bitaeniata because they are passive (and rather nice looking depending on catch location).
Oh and borelli which are both small and passive but i tend to find...
Interesting that Ivancara are not legal there - the problem is size of the aquarium - personally i like a. pucallpaensis which can be a nice fish and would fit in a 20 tall easily.
Another passive fish i like that is 'rare' is d52 though it is larger and would be a bit cramp in such a small...
If someone provides a comparison i think it is worth comparing all three species commonly thought of as kribs including:
p. pulcher, p. taeniatus and p. kribensis and for those picky there is a 4th called p. subocellatus.