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  1. allentwnguy

    Female move eggs from one cave to another?

    If you think they are addictive......... try Indostomus paradoxus!!! Oh heck most fish are addictive. That's why I have confined myself to one room in the house!
  2. allentwnguy

    Female move eggs from one cave to another?

    Once they are free swimming I usually give apisto fry 5-6 days of feeding on what's in the tank before I try them on bbs. I give them a few and see if they can get it past their mouth. Cutest thing is to see the little guys chase one bbs after another until they get one small enough to eat...
  3. allentwnguy

    Filtration for Apisto Aquariums

    Then it makes sense to have all that good filtration. While I don't consider myself a breeder I have about 400 cacatuoide fry and couldn't imagine trying to clean a mattenfilter with them around. Also a breeder would most likely have a bare bottom tank making it a breeze, especially if have an...
  4. allentwnguy

    Filtration for Apisto Aquariums

    I have always admired the sheer amount of filtration capacity of a mattenfilter and the grazing area for shrimp. But my worry has always been how to clean it in an established aquarium with lots of fry or shrimp. Mattenfilters go to the glass bottom and if substrate is involved....
  5. allentwnguy

    Filtration for Apisto Aquariums

    I second sponge filters. I'll run 2 (sit on the bottom sponge filters) in each of my larger tanks allowing one of the filter sponges to be cleaned and replaced with out harming the biological filtration capacity of the tank. In smaller tanks I run those suction cup to the glass filters with 4...
  6. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    It's raining outside! I got an e-mail from Apistogramma.com and here I am, an update is in order! Of the fry I haven't seen any deaths. In fact to keep the line in tact I separated what I thought looked like a male and 2 females. It was a female and 2 males! Since then they have spawned and...
  7. allentwnguy

    Please help to identify this Apistogramma

    I would see if the shop would divulge the name of their supplier. If he's a hobby "breeder" he should be able to narrow the specie and perhaps can supply mates. Even if it is a different species at least you'll have a match. If they won't supply a name then maybe give them a picture to give...
  8. allentwnguy

    Spawning in the wild frequency?

    It was a rhetorical question. But them are apistos and I don't think people can keep a pair (male and female) of apistos in the water parameters they like without having them breed at some point. I'm a hobbyist and a breeder (apistos) by necessity. I don't have the room to keep hundreds of...
  9. allentwnguy

    Spawning in the wild frequency?

    Thanks for reinforcing. I guess I pretty much knew the answers! If you keep Apistos I find you tend to do a lot of reading. I only keep 4 species and 2 forced me to do a lot of reading sp tefe and my alto tapiche. All 4 have bred. Now here's a scary thought.... mine have produced a few...
  10. allentwnguy

    Spawning in the wild frequency?

    Hi guys/gals. I was wondering if anyone has read any articles about Apisto's wild spawning habits. I ask this because my cacs just keep on spawning. I started with 2 pair that turned out to be one female and 3 males in August 2016. One male was chased out of the tank. I don't know how he...
  11. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Sure... Mind you this is a pic of a very young sick wild caught male. It's one of the few pics I have. I believe this was the father of the fry I have. This was taken a few days after I got them. He along with the mother of the fry were the best looking. It's a sad story with a some what...
  12. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Did a search today on google and saw apisto.com and this post listed so I decided to update for any that read it. 8 months and a triple hernia surgery later.... The little guys are doing great. There are still about 50. Some are up to 1 1/2 inches and are finally showing colors and some are...
  13. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    A borellii must be a really "chill" fish. When I put daphnia in any of my apisto tanks they hit them hard!
  14. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Well the last male alto tapiche died last night. That's the end of the crappiest fish order I have ever received, all 5 fish have died. I've said prayers and thank-yous to the female and male from this order that gifted me with these 40 fry that are doing wonderful so far.
  15. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    I only had 4 apisto tanks planned and they are full (cacatuoides triple, agassizi double red, sp Tefe and the alto tapiche). They are addictive even with the catastrophes like this order. I'm trying to stay in the room I planned as the fish room. But I'm sure we can work something out. I've...
  16. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    The are cruising just over 1/4". They are eating like hogs. With "no one else" in the tank they have split up from the group and are all over the tank at all levels. There are between 35 and 40, originally I believe there were around 50. They are true apistogramma preferring live food (bbs)...
  17. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Spoke too soon. I haven't a clue what is wrong with this male. Yesterday he was eating and swimming like normal. Now today he's back to hugging the bottom with his pelvic fins as "stabilizers" hitting the bottom. As soon as he rises he flips upside down. he heads to the bottom and rights...
  18. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Update: The male tapiche that was flipping upside down when he came off the bottom seems to be ok now, perhaps it wasn't his swim bladder. It seems like API General cure did the trick, I hope. The downside - the larger male was dead one morning, for no reason I could see. He did have a...
  19. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    If this wasn't a replacement order I would have never done business with this guy again. I was hoping "the third times the charm".... NOPE!
  20. allentwnguy

    Advice on motherless fry

    Well it looks like of the two males left of the original shipment the one that isn't the father of the fry will be the next causality. I appears as if he has some sort of swim bladder trouble. If he sits on the bottom and if he lifts off of it he inverts. Supposedly these fish went through...
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