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Hi All. I was wondering if any one has had an experience with ordering fish from http://waterlifeimports.com? They have a few different spiecies of apistos i am interested in.
Curtis
Re to Blueblue
Hi Blueblue Nice fish. I can not help you with ID. But Here are a few pics of my Cruzi male and female thease might help.
sorry for fuzzy pics of female
Curtis
:biggrin: Hi All. I have a question but not sure which area to post so I am trying it here. I was wondering if I needed to reconstitute rain water? If so do I do it like RO I have about 35-40 gals collected so far. Should I age it? and how should I do it? I have 3 55gal drums(plastic) hoping on...
Hi All. I have a female or I think it is a female. I aquired her out of a tank of A. cacatuoides At a LFS and am not sure if she is a cacatuoides so I am posting some pics hoping you all could help me.
Thease are not the best hope the will do thanks ahead for your assistance
Curtis
:confused: Hi All. I know I saw this question here before but for the life of me I can not find the thread. So here's the question. In the Cichlid atlas vol 1 there is a key after every discirption of a fish T,L,A,R,D
Ihave looked through the book and seem to be unable to find a discription of...
Update
Hi all I have a new mother watching over her clutch. My panduros have started to spawn and 1 of my fems is guarding. 2 other femns are showing signs of interest in doing the nasty LOL Unfourtunatly my Rtpunkt have once again eaten their clutch of 150+ eggs again and my Cruzi are doing...
re to mike
Thanks Mike The person i got thease from got them from a friend who used to import fish from peru and he told her they were Cruzi mine are supposed to be F1s hers were wild she still has the male but lost her female I will have to query her on the persons name and take a look at hers...
Another couple questions
Oops I ment to ad a couple ?s when is the hatchery opening up. and i was checking out southen apistos and saw A.mortenthaler tryied to googel but no matches is there another name it goes by?
Curtis
Re to Mike
Hi Mike My A.cruzi is the one in the bottom photo He looks just like him. now that he has grown some when i asked you to ID a while back they were only 4 and 5 cm now they are at least fem 5cm male 7-8 cm
Curtis
:biggrin: Hi All I got my Cichlid atlas vol 1 and am very happy with it. Was defenitly able to ID my cruzi as a cruzi. Which By the way have spawned I pulled the eggs since I have a snail prob right now about 30 eggs look to be viable will know in 3 days LOL. Ihave seen some awsome fish in the...
Re to Blueblue
Thanks Blueblue I did notice two of the littler ones squaring off and they had some faded dark coloring along midsection so I know now that I have at least 2 females I think four and two males Now I just got to get the water right and wala they should spawn too bad the rita...
Thanks also Mike I too would also like to know where and if it can be purchased online.
I can not wait to see my copy of Mergus Cichlid atlas Vol 1 to arrive It was shipped on fri just a few more days LOL
Curtis
Re to Blueblue
I have found pics Like yours what I was hoping for was a pic of a female not in breeding dress mine have no blotch in the midquarters/abdomen area. They may still be young. Thanks for the reply Yours look great. Now if I can get my Bit Purutu to start coloring up and getting...
Re to Blueblue
:biggrin: Yea I am waiting for it I ordered it thur got it for $44 at Dr foster and smith web site. I hate waiting LOL. I didn't think vol 2 was out yet. I also want the aqualog south american cichlids 2 and its sup and poster. Though I think the aqualogs are more for pictorial...
:confused: Hi all I hav recently purchased 6 A.panduro juves and have been growing them out In a 35 gal cube I know I have at least one male but have not been able to find photos of females not in breeding dress three of them seem sort of yellow orange hued and have the black cheek strip and...
:confused: Hi all I was wondering what the most recent and acurate Dwarf cichlid books are out there I just ordered Mergus Chichlid atlas vol 1 and was wonderind what other books I should work on aquiring preferably dealing with apistos.
Sincerely Curtis