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Random picture of a 100 (48x24) - well not random - had to do some work on it so spent an hour or so cleaning a few things - the only major change i think from last picture is i had 30 or so ruby tetra - they mostly hang out front but really object to the camera so they scattered as soon as i...
You clearly lack experience and @MacZ is correct that your substrate is non-optimal. Most (all?) species of apistogramma are eartheater. What this means is that they like to shift through the substrate looking for food. This doesn't mean they poke at it - it means they will eat some of it and...
I was moving the orange tetra from the n.t. aquarium to the a. ipiranga aquarium since they were picking off too many frys and took this picture in case there is interest:
I've never kept them but the related anomale nannacara i had was one of the most intelligent fish i've ever owned. It would constantly change its strategy of dealing with new situations whether it was hunting pleco fry or co-existing with kribs (not a recommended combination); i really liked...
Definitely - i had to look it up - anomala which i've owned would never turn black with fury ;) It is an unusual fish to find (from serously fish almost never in the hobby because of its drab brown colouring); the reason i note unusual is because the trifs are almost certainly tank raised so...
Around the same time my hopes were crushed that the d39 would produce frys my e. lucanusi spawned (in addition to the n. teugelsi - both species appear to be quite trivial to breed; just add some water and fishes sort of thing):
As we can see the parents frequently leave the kids alone though in...
Well it could be that yu might have better success if you could name the species and your location or at least your country.
But if you want any old dwarf cichild you might check your local walmart and see if they have a stack of them.
I'd have some concerns about the "exCorydoras" as well. I also don't think the Rummynose Tetra are suitable, too big and too active. A smaller tetra? Like the Ember or Green Neon Tetra?
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I would expect the same issue with green neon tetra as cory - a single male a. agasizii can be territorial...
So i did locate their cave and it does seem that most of the time they keep the frys in the cave though it is unclear to me how they feed the frys if they are deep underground in a cave all the time.
My e. Lucanusi spawned last week at some point - i never saw the female disappear for a while as you normally do with dwarf cichild - just one day i started seeing a few frys.
Here is the part that is driving me crazy - i rarely see the fry - usually both parents are up front begging for food...
I'm too lazy to raise live food for my critters - though i do feed bbs to frys.
The one thing i would ask of your diet - are you reproducing the reds they get in nature ;)
Last one for a few weeks though you can see how fast the frys have grown. While i try to inject the bbs low where they are it seems i do a crappy job so the frys go wild chasing after bbs:
During this time the parents - mostly the male will dive bomb the tetra but it probably isn't necessary...
Some pictures for your viewing pleasure - these guys are around a week old free swimming:
The parents trying to calm them down after injecting some bbs.
The 'frys' chasing bbs - the shocking thing to me is that the orange tetra didn't try to eat them - they even bumped into a few - i don't...
I just took a look a tom's page and this is the ones that he classified as trifs - i believe it includes all three forms:
https://www.tomc.no/fish.aspx?fishIndexID=1806&gruppeID=5