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  1. arifhb

    Sick Apisto!

    Hello everyone. It's been a long time since my last message and the fish is still alive! It's eating and courting. I came across an interesting piece of information; the ancestor of this species is wild and these are its first offspring. However, its other siblings have started to have similar...
  2. arifhb

    Sick Apisto!

    Hello again, I took this strange fish back to its old home. I applied two doses of kanaplex but let me say again that this is not a situation related to internal infection. You will see in the video. It is like being paralyzed. What do you think?
  3. arifhb

    Sick Apisto!

    Yes, what you say is true, we do not understand this. We even interpret the symptoms in internal infection cases as purely probable; we do not have a clear interpretation and a clear treatment method without a pathological sample. We use broad-spectrum drugs for this reason, but that is also...
  4. arifhb

    Sick Apisto!

    Thank you for your comment; I specifically looked at the template and wanted to explain what happened in general rather than filling it in. It is really interesting that this fish has become like this for no reason at all. As I said, it has chosen to live in hiding for a year and has not even...
  5. arifhb

    Sick Apisto!

    Yes gentlemen! The fish you see in the photo has been like this for a week! First I saw it resting its belly on the bottom, then it started to swim unsteadily by making jumps while swimming. It has been hiding like this for 3 days and prefers to stay still. It was eating food until yesterday. It...
  6. arifhb

    İtaya or Pachitea?

    Hi everyone! Yes gentlemen, do you think it is an itaya cacatuoides or pachitea? I looked into it a lot and it looks like it belongs to the pachitea river to me. This fish is an F1 juvenile belonging to a wild couple from Peru. There's another thing I'm wondering about, I know that cacatuoides...
  7. arifhb

    Hybrid?

    It is said that it was imported from Czech, the tail color was always close to purple. Is it possible that there is a form between the two species? has such a trifasciata been reported to the taxonomy? Thanks Frank
  8. arifhb

    Hybrid?

    Hi everyone.I think this species is a cross of erythrura and trifasciata; What do you think is the situation?
  9. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    I guess I can't explain my problem well enough. I don't ask about the long term; I know this! In the short term I asked why is this the case? Reply; lots of storage space... Anyway, I've been keeping dwarf species for three years; wild bettas, crustaceans, apistos, adjarians.. Yes, I am...
  10. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    Thanks my friend, glad you like it. I used walnut tree and willow tree branches.
  11. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    I don't think the only problem is optical barriers. I've had dozens of fry from this pair and grown them in a smaller tank with fewer optical obstructions. Why are you just leaning on that? Again, the number of fry was about 10-15, and on the fourth day this number remained 2-3. Men never...
  12. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    This tank was installed in October 2021. The lighting is the same in both environments. The sand in the base and everything I use in the filter are the same. But three weeks ago I put in a coconut shell and they lined up eggs. They hadn't done that since October. The female had used the same...
  13. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    I understand and approve of you. This couple has never been too aggressive towards each other. As you mentioned, having many hiding places reduces the stress on fish in tanks with limited volume. But that's not the reason for my current situation. In the smaller breeding tank the mendeses did...
  14. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    In general, having too many obstacles at the base prevents aggression. However, this does not completely stop the aggression. Most fish also have a unique character; They can also be benign. I have grown apisto in most of my tanks without unnecessary hindrance. The tank where I looked at the...
  15. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    I agree with you; The more obstacles the better. I'll be getting them into breeding tanks soon.
  16. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    There are vertical and horizontal obstacles here as well. There are areas to hide.
  17. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    Thanks to everyone who commented. Dear Darrel, actually there are enough optical barriers in the tank but as you said maybe I can increase the dry leaf stock. I leave a pose where you can see the bottom of the tank more closely; The thing I'm really curious about is, as I said, the frying stock...
  18. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    Yes, I know cardinals are good hunters. The tank area is not very open, there is leaf litter and small bushes. I'm no newbie to apistogramma; I have had many kinds of feed and fry. But this is the first time I have observed this situation. I still see frying in the tank now. The male wants to...
  19. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    Thank you MacZ. I forgot to say this; there were very few fries (10-15). This is the couple's third fry, but for the first time, the numbers are small and the offspring are very small. Cardinals could not approach the fry, the male and female protect them well. I think for the reason that I just...
  20. arifhb

    Apistogramma mendezi fry

    Hello to everyone! I have an 85 liter tank; pH 5.0 Tds 60 ppm. I keep 9 cardinal tetras and a pair of mendeses inside. Five days ago the fries went free swimming, and today it looks like mama mendezi stopped caring for the fries. The male was not aggressive until now, but now he is putting...
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