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Thanks Cathy! The video is just an amateurs work though, but the fish are certainly gorgeous.
Randy: I don't think that one generation of artificial hatching matters much. The effect is probably over a longer time span, when you pull the eggs consequently, because you then select in favor of...
I think you need to hatch bbs to supply your fry with the best possible food. I think you will find the pain less once in the routine. It's really a must when breeding dwarves.
In my experience ram fry will take bbs more or less from day one, but then again there are a few varieties of bbs that...
I would isolate the female to a tank of her own with proper water conditions (soft, slightly acid) and feed her well for a couple of weeks. If healthy she should by then be full of eggs. Then introduce the larger male while watching carefully. They should produce a spawn shortly after. If the...
I also found the male very pushy, but my pair now have declared a kind of truce, ever since they killed the dithers (3 Nannostomus marginatus).
Some of the youngsters always seemed to end up in the males end of the tank, where they were accepted. Mother "Black-chin" did not appreciate this...
First of all, I would check that it is really A. juruensis that you bought. It would be a sensational find, since it hardly ever was exported from Brazil. Brazil is a keyword here, because if your fish were imported from Peru (which I suspect), it is most likely the undescribed species A. sp...
He, he. In front of the obvious...
I don't know why I didn't think that. Maybe because the proportions between body and dorsal are some what off from what I would expect.
In my defense I never saw these fish in real life, only the photo.
Anyway, thanks for your help :)
No need to change this:
It even has a scar. Isn't that nice:wink:
I don't even think that it's necessary to argue about the ethics involved in producing these types of fishes. Frankly I don't need to know about it!
You can just look at it as a commercial product that is not...
Scientific studies in this area done with Apistogramma spp. suggests that pH only influences a little on the sex ratio, while temperature is a determining factor the first 4-6 weeks of their lives.
According to this 26 degrees celcius should give you app. a 50/50 ratio. I have personally found...
That's called a book :wink:
No, seriously you should buy the DATZ catalogue of Dwarf Cichlids. It's available here:
http://shop.ulmer.de/QUlEPTMxOTkwJk1JRD01MjEx.html?UID=3E73BE4E740AD3E0E2402E858F228070EB582DDC061978B6A4
Unfortunately the link is in german, but it should be available...
The bottom picture shows a male A. sp. "Winkelfleck/Angle-patch" (A 44-45), the top photo is a female, but i think of a different species. The caudal spot is to small for this species. It is so small that I'm a little confused about what it could really be.
This would explain the lack of...
OK, thanks.
Could be interesting to test if the females preferred one of the colour forms of the two, to see some of the functionality behind the males polychromatism.