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The only way you will know for sure if no one else has done this is to try the cross and see what happens. Bear in mind your offspring may not conform to your expectations due to fatalities or a number of other things. One important thing is your plan is going to involve line breeding to get...
Modifier genes work on expression of all genes and that is what gives us the impression of dominance and recession in gene expression. In reality dominance is just a prevelant expression of genes under most conditions whereas many genes expression switches on and off in different conditions...
It comes in a red strain yes where the males especially show more red in the belly area. It isn't a hybrid, well at least it certainly doesn't look like one.
The picture you linked to looks like an Apistogramma 'Steel Blue' - a probable commercially produced hybrid often sold as A.borelli. If you're keeping discus then you should have enough space in the tank for the shoal of discus to get out of the way of the apistos though they might chase them...
The liquid carbon supplements you can buy such as Seachem's Excel or EasyCarbo are excellent for removing BBA. You just take your daily dose in a syringe, add a bit of water and squirt it over the BBA. In a day ot two it bleaches and then dies. IME BBA is the result of fluctuating CO2 levels...
Along with lots of other things that up the TDS in the tank, ferts raise it hugely IME. They are pretty much all salts of one kind or another and so the conductivity goes way up!
I found that some of my killies and dwarfs seemed to not lay eggs when the TDS was too high, even though I was...
I've used a few species of non-annuals as companion fish in tanks. I've never used them on their own and not sure how good they are in the role as dither fish to encourage the dwarfs out, but they make good fish to keep with them IMO.
In a 40 gallon tank you can really only keep 1 species of dwarf cichlids. If you try and cram too many in they will fight and not breed or be very happy. It'd be like asking you and your family to share a box room with another couple.
If you already have the rams then you need to stick with...
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A 1.2m tank is about 4 foot long or 48". If you're going to divide it up I you could split them into three sections, each 16" long. How wide is the tank? If it's 2ft wide then you'd still have pretty big compartments. In fact if it's 18" or 2ft wide you could...
The last thing you need is more light with T5s. This algae is almost always caused by unstable CO2 levels. If you have CO2 then use it in conjunction with a drop checker with 4dKH solution in it (this will be green when you have 30ppm CO2) and large weekly water changes to remove organic...
CO2 makes a big difference to plant growth IME too. Yeast generated CO2 is better than none but do be careful with it. The CO2 level in the water will fluctuate a lot with it and unstable CO2 levels are very good at starting off algae IME, especially hair and brush/beard algae.
If you don't...