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Thank you all for the great suggestions. The ceramic pots I bought to plant the potted plants in are about 8-10cm in height and diameter so the plan was for them to be the line of sight breakers in each tank. The breeding caves I use also have just a small hole as a single entrance exit. In...
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
I have no intention of keeping more than 1 pair per tank. I'm not even intending to keep dithers with each pair as I know it's not recommended. I did mention in my first sentence that I was setting up breeding tanks (plural), not 1 tank. 16 to be exact.
The primary...
I'm setting up some breeding tanks for dwarf cichlids, mainly Apistogramma but I may try others as well as and when they are available to me (e.g. at the moment I have 2 pairs of Ivanacara bimaculata waiting to go into the tanks). I'm planning to keep the tanks functional and not...
They are actually all pretty coloured up at the moment, very similar to the most colourful ones on Google images. I've been feeding them Repashy (a mix of bottom scratcher and spawn & grow) to condition them and bulk them up
I was thinking of letting them form a pair in the current tank, then moving the rest to another tank and letting another pair form and repeat till they all pair up (currently only 2 females but I'm adding more later this year). My only worry is that klutz me will catch the wrong fish out during...
I did think that they formed less transient pairs since they were of the same genus as Ivanacara adoketa which I found didn't pair up so easily (though the Ivanacara bimaculata are definitely less aggressive than their cousins). Would they eventually pair up if I kept them in separate...
I initially wanted to get 2 pairs, but the shop had 3m2f left and convinced me to just take them all. They were smallish then so I kept them in the same tank initially to grow them out first. I didn't notice any aggression so I'm still keeping them there for now. The tank is 42 x 16 inches...
I have 2 females and 3 males. The females have that white patch that identifies them, and also a red blob sticking out that looks like a breeding tube.
So they are kind of like rams rather than apistos? The tank they're in has an aquasoil substrate and chunky hard wood as hardscape. I've...
After growing mine out for about half a year, I'm starting to drop the TDS with rodi water changes and adding botanicals to the tank. Some of the fish are showing red blobs near the anus - are those breeding tubes? Are these cave spawners or do they spawn on decor like hardscape and plant...
I'm from Singapore too, and I just managed to get hold of 5 Ivanacara bimaculata (3m2f). Hoping to be able to get 2 pairs to form and eventually breed them. I have a few 40 gallon 3ft long tanks to separate them in to when they eventually pair up
I am setting up a 600 gallon planted tank (7 x 3 x 4 ft) that will have a large sandy foreground area with wood mulch and botanicals. I also have in my fish room a group of 9 Dicrossus warzeli and another group of 10 Biotoecus (I can't remember if I got them as opercularis or dicentrarchus -...
Thank you both Macz and Darrel for your further advice. I've come across Darrel's posts many times over the years at the plantedtank forum, where I've been a member since 2007 and have kept many successful high tech and low tech planted tanks since then.
I'll be running non-limiting nutrients...
Something interesting I came across that may explain why pure RO didn't work well for many fish for me, but pure RO with tannins works well:
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20377
Thank you so much for your detailed response. I apologize that I was not more clear in my initial post. I'm not intending to keep a blackwater or clearwater tank. This is a 600 gallon display tank - the plan is to keep a normal planted display aquarium that is scaped to mimic a flooded river...
In terms of stocking the general rule of thumb as I know it is 1 adult discus per 10 gallons of tank volume. That's for a bare tank though, you may want to reduce it slightly for a scaped tank. The tank I shared was 6 adult discus and 5 angels in a 120 gallon 4x2x2 tank. I also had bunch of...
If I didn't know for sure that the importer/exporter did the exact quarantine procedure that I would do myself, I would just go ahead and do it myself. That's the bar I set for myself and my fish. I have not found any of my wildcaught fish to react adversely to standard anti parasite...
You will also not likely be able to successfully breed them as it seems to me that their eggs are unviable in hard/high ph water conditions. This is my anecdotal experience and not scientifically proven though.