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It definitely sounds doable. Do you have a m/f pair of nannanacaras/apistos or a harem of one and pair of the other?
I message all the fish shops within an hour drive, they all had nannanacara then one messaged me at closing time stating they had Laetacara dorsigera but only sent a picture of...
Laetacara dorsigera & curviceps are the fish I'm looking at currently, hopefully dorsigera as it looks a bit smaller/more colorful.
This is pretty much expected but providing the tank is set up right would the odd bickering over territory cause the apistos to be stressed out and unhappy or...
General consensus is a no to more apistos then even if the same of different species.
Thank you so much for that recommendation as this is exactly the sort of fish I'm looking for, I seen blue acara in the LFS but that was obviously a nope, I had no idea there are dwarf varieties, now I'm going...
I don't have any photos to hand since I done a mini rescape and made space 2 more plants.
All plants are "background" plants even if they're at the front of the tank, there's also a lot of bogwood, rocks, coconut shells, and old film canisters, I try to keep 2-3 spawning sites per apisto so...
Let me start by saying I have 1m/3f Borellii & 2 coral red pencil fish (was 6 but 2 pair up and chased the rest to death wtf.. these were supposed to be peaceful dithers).
Anyway I hear "You could easily fit 3 pairs of apistos in a tank that size" a lot (and I mean a lot), Reddit, LFS's, fellow...
First female has lost all her fry, I suspect the male or sparkling gourami but wouldn't be surprised if the coral red pencil fish played a part too. Two more have fry swimming around now, it's a learning process and plants are only going to get bigger.
This one had been missing for about a...
The fry are actually pecking at the adult fish food she collected (Zoom In).
It's hard to get a photo as she gets the fry to pull back so I better stop with the photos for a bit. What lovely little fish tho :)
So hard to get a photo when they're this size but the first spawning female has brought her fry out.
Other fish are allowed extremely close surprisingly, when I had rams GBRs took 2/3 of the tank.
Snails arrived
Shrimp are getting much more adventurous and the borellii still don't seem interested
Plants came a bit battered but will hopefully pull back before fry appear
I haven't had any apisto fry yet but when I had rams I used hikari first bites which had quite a good success rate, not quite live food but pretty good.
You have to mix it in a petri dish until it sinks, then syringe it up and gently spray it a couple of inches above the fry. It takes a day or...
I think it will be a week or two until I see fry and they are probably farm bred so it will take them a while to figure it out. In theory they should squabble over the fry but prioritise defending the fry from non brooding fish.
They have pretty passive disputes so far, a long away from harming...
Haha I'm glad it is not just my Borellii who does this.
To me it definitely looks to be a submissive way of attracting new females while avoiding trouble. When I added an extra two females (obviously a bit scared with colour loss) he done it a lot more to the two additional Borellii and I...
Have you got a Maidenhead Aquatics near you? They seem to always have apistos surprisingly even though they're not so popular anymore.
They can be a bit of a nightmare for getting the wrong females and they might try to get you to buy pairs claiming these fish do better in pairs (I assume this...
By wildcard do you mean wild type (suit) apistos?
If your nitrates can get that high I would start cutting with more RO water firstly or alternatively just buy minerals for your RO water and make it exactly how you want it. Luckily my tap water comes out a constant 80TDS/6GH/<1KH yet I still...
As a recent owner of A. Borellii (1M/5F Harem) I can tell you they are very peaceful but they definitely don't stand out as much as these larger apistos yet you can't really put a centerpiece fish in with them.
BTW if you make a list for a LFS with either, A. borellii, A. cacatuoides, or A...
Haha I would love to add some (dwarf) Corydoras Habrosus but I have a fear of them not understanding territory and loosing eyes. Not to mention its a tad too warm for them in there.
Thank you, just waiting for the plants to fill out a bit.
Small update; I now have 2 or 3 spawning females. One was in the film canister "cave's" at the front between the crypts but has since moved further back under the large bit of wood, think I will have to move them back and conceal them a...
Everything is going great apart from the Hygrophila corymbosa 'Siamensis 53B' which will be replaced by water wisteria in the following days.
Also thinking of adding some nice colored Ramshorn snails but don't know if these will do ok in such soft water or alternatively take over the tank with...