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atahualpa in my opinion, are probably the most violent Apistogramma species I’ve ever kept….she probably adopted the philosophy that it better to hide than to take the beatings. With that said, 64L is probably only appropriately sized for one atahualpa
I had a group of these once…ended up with what I thought was 5m/1f. Moved the 4 extra males to a community tank…only to find one in the community tank with a group of fry a month later
I can’t see enough in the photos, but perhaps you can. Do the rows of scales lose their clean rows/lines and get confused/jumbled/deformed somewhere along the lateral band somewhere between the end of the dorsal fin and the start of the caudal fin?
Interesting fish, I’d be selective about a female for him…he looks to be somewhere along the lines of cf. agassizii nets/netz or BBCS. Would be interesting to see what Mike or Frank have to say.
My take is that it’s somewhat near to nature. All the WC Uaupes fish I’ve ever had were “red faced”, never the red face+belly. And that’s how they bred. I’d wager the red belly is population specific…Icana?
Are these different from most of the other SA dwarfs? 26 gets both sexes, less than 26 more females, more than 26 more males, seems to be a pretty solid plan for Apistogramma and Dicrossus in my experience.
Wetspot has water that comes from the tap at about 15us/cm. They just buffer the water up as most folks they’re shipping to don’t have water anywhere near that soft. The variance probably comes from the difference between the warehouse and the store. Id expect the warehouse water (central flow...