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Very nice setup. What's not quite clear in the pics and movie is if there's enough caves and hiding places for apisto's. Despite the wood/stones/branches it looks quite open.
Nice tank/setup. And very nice fish.
Only thing i would change is take a dark background so you can't see trough anymore (=more comforting for the fish) and change the position of the valisneria(?) on the most right cause it's leading the sight out of the tank.
I think think that you should take advantage of this opportunity. It's a nice species, although more variants are available of course. Make sure you create enough hiding places with wood, plants, litter leaf and caves, cause the sexes can be pretty agressive towards eachother! Depending on if...
I'm sorry to read above. I think a combination of stress and maybe parasites (wild caught). What are you feeding? What kind of light do you have above the tank? Maybe feed living food like brown shrimp, daphnia and so on and less light to avoid further stress. And because wild caugt, watch the...
Indeed, this fish is hard to sex. I breed with this fish a few years and i have a group swimming with a group of Apistogramma. My experience is that sex gets visible when they get about > 5 cm. And what Melanochromis writes is true. I think they are all males.
Ah! Thanks Apistomaster. It's often hard to conversate in a language that's not the daily speaking one. Hope to remember ovipositor for future diaologues :-)
By the way Wespastor: I really think you have all males. The one on the 3rd pic doesn't look to good to me. His belly should be full...