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Corydoras are excellent Apistogramma fry predators so if you have any then you can expect a lot of any fry produced to be eaten! Also the Apistos know they are after their babies and will chase them off rather purposefully and give them a hard time! Havign said that, if they have enough room...
You have high light levels there. That's 4 watts per gallon!!! I run my tanks at around 2 WPG and can grow even tricky plants at that level. You really need to address your CO2 levels for your plants to grow properly and then think about adding more ferts too.
If you can afford pressurised...
Will do....
This is an earlier albino pair of Jim's,
This is another previous pair showing lots of colour,
This is the pair that gave rise to the last group of young Jim was talking about in an earlier post,
These last three are all siblings of the picture posted earlier...
A gene isn't actually one coding section at all but a whole collections of coding sections, all of which can mutate and be selected. Some of these coding sections control the expression of the 'gene' and this is where dominance or recessivity comes from. This pulcher albino 'gene' seems to be...
You've also got xanthochromic fish which have an excess of yellow and reduction of other pigments too.
I think we have a kind of leucism with the heterozygotic fish and then albinism in the homozygous fish from what I've seen.
I'd be wary of both. I don't know about Jacarandas but I have a few Eucalypts and the resin would make me not use them in a tank. Remember that there's no huge volume of water to dilute any problems from the wood unless you're on a constant water change system!
Just to confirm Jim, is that from an albino male crossed with a red female or something else?
Looking forward to the pics! Is there red colouration on the yellowish albinos or are they just strongly yellow - i.e. a leucistic or xanthic?
Fish of all kinds will eat dead fish. You will even find the other tetras will have tucked in too. How long is a 20g tank? I have had smaller Pelvicachromis kill a few tetras in 2ft long tanks so you're better with dithers that keep right up at the top like some killifish or hatchets IMHO.
I know it seems like a lot of work but once it's set up it's not too bad. I give the tank and large water change every week or so and dose every few days (as I forget to do it each day - just gone to the tank to give it a dose today as I'm thinking about it! lol!) and feed the fish two to three...
The tank is 180l with 90W of High Output T5 lighting with gull-wing reflectors. Water is pure RO water with a mix of Kent's RO Right and Seachem's Equilibrium to remineralise it to give me 0dKH, 3dGH and a pH of about 5 and a half (this varies with the CO2). CO2 is injected during daylight...
Have you got any man-made caves or ornaments in there? I have a nice realistic wood-effect cave that when I first added it was the source of a lot of buffering.
If I have mixed fry then I tended to mix completely different species in the past, i.e. killies or cories with apistos. You then have species feeding in totally different ways and they don't compete as much for the food as they are in different areas. However there's nothing wrong with mixing...
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I'm having the same thing happen to me. I have 1m 3f A.agassizii 'Double Reds' in a metre long tank and all three females have laid eggs at different times over the past couple of weeks! Still no fry yet though!
I fend them quite aggressive little fish so Jase's advice is definitely worth...
Danios do go rather mad and are not always the best choice for a Dwarf Cichlid tank as they can spook the Apistos.
The best choices or dither fish are probably Pencilfish; they are calm, shoal nicely and don't eat the babies.
Other good choices are non-annual killifish, some livebearers...