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The A.cactuoides you see in fish shops are almost certainly captive bred and therefore more used to captivity hence a bit easier to acquire and keep. They also form pairs or harems and aren't too aggressive. Some other apistos form pairs, some are more aggressive and some are either wild or...
Thanks very much. It was done primarily for the effect and the plants rather than for the fish really. The background substrate is Aquasoil which softens the water and provides nutrients for the plants whereas the sand at the front is finer for a beach-like effect. When I originally planned...
I had a look at your site Jim and was intrigued by your reference to two forms of red pulcher. Were they the domestic one and the wild collected Nigeria one? Have you tried using the wild strain in breeding the domestic one?
I look forward to seeing the results George! I'm certainly iching now to see whether we can transfer some of the extra red colouration across to the heterozygous fish. If not maybe we'll just succeed in producing a better, well spotted red form, who knows?!
Apisto-nut my young male 'Super...
Well it nearly didn't when I thought I'd lost the Super Reds!!!! I'm going to have to keep my eyes peeled to see if any of the LFSs have some heavily spotted kribs I think, but perhaps it's best to work on getting the red colouration sorted first! You never know some spottier individuals might...
Cracking pics as usual mate! And gorgeous fish. We'll have to sort getting some down to me once the weather improves as I have a clear 2ft tank they could go into.
George is there any way you can try spawning the offspring of that pair? It seems to me you must have two homozygous fish...
Have you kept many SA dwarfs before? I'm just thinking that if not you might be best keeping some of the easier and more commonly available species. Personally I think it'd be cool to have a large colony of one species with a large group of 10-15 Apistogrammas, such as cactuoides, and let the...
Cheers for all that Info Ted. I'll take a photo of my little Super Red male. He seems to colouring up nicely to me and I think I'm going to mate him with one of Ste's Albino offspring.
As they aren't true colourless albinos (well as far as I'd call them that anyway) I'm hoping we can add...
Hijack away mate - all info is good info!
Can I ask you how red are the young?
Personally I'd try mating an F1 female back to dad if he's the Super Red one. Failing that I'd breed with the two most colourful siblings.
Cheers mate, I'll send you an e-mail when I'm back at school and we can sort out a good date! I'm finding these aggies very aggressive but might have to try the solo breeding tank idea if they don't sort it out in here.
BBA is caused by low or inconsistent CO2 levels. Seachem Excel provides some of the intermediates of the carbon fixation metabolic pathways that the plant can use as if it's carbon.
As Apisto-nut says it also has excellent anti-algae properties. I have treated BBA and other algae with it...
Hope the title wasn't too off-putting but I couldn't think of a more succinct thread title!!!
Basically Ste (Ste1200) and I had a little scheme to breed some kribs and improve his Albino fish and work with the Super Red form too. Unfortunately our plan has hit a little road bump as the...
Well the eggs proved to be infertile unfortunately and didn't survive.
On the up side the little male Pelvicachromis pulcher 'Super Red' was hiding in the filter, unharmed, and is colouring up nicely Ste! As I've lost the female maybe we could do a straight cross with one of your colourful...
Very nice! I love the oak leaf litter!
I really like these smaller pike cichlids. What size are Mum and Dad and the tank and what, if any, fish are in the tank with them?
Very nice pics and well done on the breeding (even though this fish did most of the work :biggrin: !).
When I bred Ancistrus I fed them Nori sheets and cucumber. I think people feed mashed up squash too. Maybe they would do well on that too?
There was an article in Practical Fishkeeping about the natural breeding of them. I think it was Bristol Zoo. Unfortunately the breeding article doesn't seem to be online yet.
Not aggies mate, the Super Red kribs! Should have been more detailed sorry!
But I spoke too soon about these Double reds too, the female abandoned the cave either due to the male aggression (he's still beating her and the other two up now!) or my photography! I've taken a step I never...
Sounds good mate, let me know. I really ought to rejoin the BCA! Bad news on the Super Reds BTW. Female was killed my the male and the male has now disappeared from my other 3ft tank! I'm hoping he's just hiding somewhere in amongst all the plants and wood.