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100l (ro+tap), white fine sand, 3 drift wood, 2 coconut caves, oak leaves and alder fruits
Flora - Pistia stratiotes and Eichhornia crassipes
Fauna - for the moment only A. Agassizi pair (domestic red-top/red-tail strain) ;)
Very nice so far. I agree with Darrel, some plants are welcome, maybe you consider some surface plants. I just started a new tank few days ago with only sand, leaves, some drift wood and surface plants.
I found some pipe, I made it to float and... really works. The macmasteri female is chased a lot from my crazy male and today I saw the female resting in one of the pipes. ;) To make her life easier, I'll add some more drift wood.
In the first place I will let the "nature" to follow the course, if there will be some survival fry I will try to help them grow up. This is the first spawn for the scalar pair and I don't want to interfere too much.
My advice if you want fresh BBS: use 2 cut plastic bottles (1L) and only 500 ml of water in each. You have fresh BBS every day, depending on how many fry you got you add the eggs (normal, when the fry are bigger, the eggs must be more). When the eggs in bottle 1 are hatched, you can start bottle...
The fry won't eat BBS from their first free swimming day, but you can start a culture (you may need starting with second day)
1. Yes, allways
2. Better wait and siphon them
Feed BBS every day, I feed my fry 3 times a day. Try to give them fresh BBS, as long as you keep them more days the nutritional value is dropping. (I start a new culture every 24 hours, you just need 2 recipients)
I see. I understand that they grow bigger than p. scalare and look very good. I'll see them next week. They will be my next "altums", it's the best I can find now :) Thanks
What do you know about them? It's just a scalare with a different name or it could be a altum?
Picture source: http://www.kijiji.it/annunci/altri-animali/messina-annunci-messina/ultimi-5-pterophyllum-altum-peruensis-3-3-5-cm/37996585
How is the interaction between beckfordi and apisto fry? From what I read should not be problems. I expect 15 beckfordi next week and I want to introduce them into my 200 liter tank.