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I had a female hongsloi that i asked (on this forum) if it was male or female and most said it was a male but then a bit later - maybe 6 months it started laying eggs so i guess it was a female. It was a large fish as large as my largest male but no where as pretty as...
I think there is but i think it is more by catch location then individual per sey. The issue then becomes if it is the same species with a variation or a new species :(
That is interesting about them only living one season in the wild. It of course means if they live longer in the aquarium they will grow much larger and might change in behavior as well as perhaps be limited in breeding in later life.
update on nt and el frys in case there is interest:
nt - that is the female watching them from under a leaf - both the male and female tend to keep their top covers (birds in the wild ?) when moving about:
zoomed out a little - i guess that is some cyano on the wood i should remove next...
I do have a question here - and i only have 9 f1 - so limited group - at least one of my females has the typical dark patch but it is only one side of the fish - missing on the other side of the fish- are you suggesting this is a mutation and i should not breed her ?
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These are true f1 from...
Thayeri can easily eat cardinals but they have left my serpae tetra alone.
Of course there are also hiding places for the serpae. In truth while I really like the 30 or 40 serpae tetra i have the star are the Anostomus ternetzi; but then again i have a 600 gallon aquarium so lots of room.
I had a group of 6 in my 600 community tank - they never bicker much and just generally chilled. They are starting to age out now - for whatever reason none of the Laetacara have been as long lived as other species i've kept.
They didn't require any special care - mine were full adults when...
I'm confused does a male not develop a ventral patch when masquarding? All my f1 males when young showed a dark spot where the female normally has her (what i believe you are calling) a ventral patch. Of course the dominant male then drop this dark patch or perhaps i'm totally misunderstanding...
I have similar a. nijjensi and with my ~14 month old f1 i still have quite a few 'large' female that are almost certainly males but yea the real females definitely are more - well in truth they all turned yellow ;) probably 'cept one blue one which is almost certainly a male 'cept well it sure...
This should read the cardinals at NOT nearly as bad as those orange monsters. Sure they will go after frys if feasible but as long as the parents keep them low there isn't much of an issue at least in this aquarium. The orange monsters will not only pick off frys that go high but go under drift...
clearly not opal - as for female - it matters not on the colour morph as long as it is an borelli. The opal are specs on the face and most opal i've seen at least domestic have no yellow.
Personally i would remove the keyhole - eventually something sad will happen and stress is well quite stressful on the fishes. I've found in tanks where i never observed any aggression at all one morning someone will end up dead. I never quite understand who attacked who because i never saw any...
a couple of pictures of a 20 long i have setup (all same aquarium):
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THis aquarium is way over populated yet i can only see 4 fishes in there across all these photos :(
Well there was a successful breeding - the cardinals are nearly as bad as those orange monsters and approx 1/3 of 100 gallon floor is not accessible from above so if they keep the young frys in that area the tetra never have a chance to go after them.
But yes i find these larger aquariums not...
One question - the wallaciia is not compatible with water or temperature of the Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus so i presume you will sep them during the winter ?
This from the aquarium that started the thread - it is now around 3 years old:
The original set of emerald eye rasbora (brevibora dorsiocellata) are still with us but the hatchet fishes and bitaeniata all aged out as well as the coral red pencil fish (n. morthenthaleri). Not sure what to make...