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  1. Bart Hazes

    Less aggressive Apistogramma species

    In that case I'd go with Mike's advice and just get a male apistogramma to avoid fights over territory or breeding partners. Your choice will likely depend on what you can get. Agassizii, cacatuoides, macmasteri are the more commonly available apistos at my LFS (and not very common at that). If...
  2. Bart Hazes

    Less aggressive Apistogramma species

    I agree with Mike if you define a community tank as a tank where fish play a purely aesthetic role, and in that case limiting yourself to males makes sense too. I know locals here often just buy males. IMO this is like buying a beautiful sailboat but no sails because it might cause the ship to...
  3. Bart Hazes

    Less aggressive Apistogramma species

    I keep many of my apistos in community tanks and aggression towards other fish is not normally a concern, even when breeding. Most fish learn to stay away from the guarding female. Cories are a bit different because they prefer living near the substrate where the apistogramma fry will also be...
  4. Bart Hazes

    Apistogramma allpahuayo biotope

    I would kill (not literally) to go but am teaching two University courses this Fall both starting in September. For me such trips would have to be late April to late August or perhaps around the Xmas break. Unfortunately a big chunk of that is rainy season in Peru.
  5. Bart Hazes

    Apistogramma allpahuayo biotope

    That must be the latest fashion. Just last weekend I put Crenuchus and allpahuayo in a tank which also houses A. sp. Abacaxis and Axelrodi riesei as dithers. Tyttocharax 'Sky Blue Tahuayo River' should arrive at my importer in Calgary in August. Price to be announced but I expect it will cost...
  6. Bart Hazes

    Hello from a new apistos keeper

    Welcome Alex! Young female apistos that turn out to be males is a common issue. Either have a good long look at them in the store, including behaviour, before buying or get a group of fish and hopefully there will at least be a few of each sex (but I've had groups up to 8 that were all male or...
  7. Bart Hazes

    Apistogramma allpahuayo biotope

    I haven't gotten vallisneria because it isn't found in South America (although I'm not 100% strict on plants for biotopes). But I just learned that there is a Helanthium species, H. bolivianum 'Angustifolius', that resembles vallisneria with up to 50cm long thin leaves growing on runners like H...
  8. Bart Hazes

    Apisto orgies

    In recent weeks I observed two apisto spawnings. An A. norberti I got to see from start to finish and for A. macmasteri I saw the middle and end part. I may have seen parts of an A. rubrolineata spawning as well but can't be sure unless I see fry in 9 days from now. For the norberti the female...
  9. Bart Hazes

    Apisto orgies

    In the past month I have had at least 8 spawnings and often they came in pairs, either simultaneously or within a few days. Two A. ortegai in one tank, two A. rubrolineata in another and two Dicrossus filamentosus spawnings in a third. Today I had an A. macmasteri pair spawning but then noticed...
  10. Bart Hazes

    pool filter sand vs. play sand

    I found alder in the river valley of Edmonton Canada. The most likely place to find it is along the banks of small side creeks where there is more sunlight and wetter soil. I can harvest alder cones in late Fall and early Spring when it is the dead dried cones. But stripping of bark will...
  11. Bart Hazes

    Fry growth/health results based on feeding style

    Same for my otos. And if I do put in zucchini they are not really interested so I assume they find what they need. In the first few weeks fry really don't represent much biomass so during the time where they won't yet participate in 'regular aquarium feeding' I think there is plenty of food in...
  12. Bart Hazes

    Help with led light

    Bit late reply, but I had a Finnex with broken PS. It was a 15V constant-voltage PS so I just got another one from Mean Well of a bit higher wattage than the old. The only thing that matters for these lights is voltage must match and wattage should meet or exceed requited (but don't exceed by...
  13. Bart Hazes

    Fry growth/health results based on feeding style

    I split a spawn of 40 macmasteri fry after about 4 weeks in the community tank without any feeding of the fry by me. I moved 20 to a 10 gallon where I diligently fed them BBS, microworms and later dry food, frozen food etc. The other 20 were left in the community tank cared for by mom at the...
  14. Bart Hazes

    pool filter sand vs. play sand

    Interesting read. I have a jar of untreated peat sitting on my kitchen table to check colour and pH effects on my RO water. I've also experimented with tree bark. The one I had was cedar and it worked great (pH dropped to 4 or less and dark brown stain) but smelled like resin so I never dared to...
  15. Bart Hazes

    Dim Viewing Light

    I do the same with virtually 100% cover of Salvinia, frogbit and or pistia. Really cuts down on tank maintenance as well. Surprisingly enough, some submerged plants still grow (slowly) under the floating canopy.
  16. Bart Hazes

    One more from Canada

    Haha. In 6 months I may start flooding you with F1 apisto offspring as proper punishment :)
  17. Bart Hazes

    Are there any other Canadians

    Just heard back from Curtis and all Canadian Apistionados can contact him at [email protected] He does not have his own website of facebook page and, to my knowledge, only advertises on the Alberta Aquatica forum. I am looking at setting up a website for fish trading myself but that will...
  18. Bart Hazes

    Are there any other Canadians

    I've messaged you his email address as I don't like to put other people's contact information out in public without their permission.
  19. Bart Hazes

    Media to Waste Ratio

    Wow, finally some people who take the concept seriously and give it some real thought! I've had locals interested in the ultimate outcome but not so much the process. That's ok, you don't have to know how a combustion engine works to be a good driver, but part of the aquarium hobby is to learn...
  20. Bart Hazes

    Pulling Apisto Fry

    Nice old-school ethology. I studied biology in the 80s and the bird people would always do stuff like this. Steal bird's eggs and replace them with eggs of different colour, shape, or size. Interestingly, bird parents always went for the biggest eggs of the right colour, up to ridiculous sizes...
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