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As i mentioned a bit back my a. sp ipiranga finally bred after a year+; for some reason at least by the time i noticed them the frys were a lot larger than other species (such as winkelfleck); is this due to mouth brooding; does the mother somehow feed the frys or just a characterisitic of this...
Winkelfleck is the only species i own where the female will bring her brood to me to feed. 1/2 the species i own the female runs from me when i feed them - so take that with a grain of salt if you end up with them - this is my male when young; he's a year older now; according to Tom's pages...
The one male i saw today seemed colour up but was mostly blue - not much in the way of red. Pretty young - maybe 1 to 1.25 inch and the water is pretty dark though he was not shy to the pin point flashlight i used which allowed me to observe him. The female i saw was typical female and the other...
My view is almost all the commonly available species (macs, agasizzi, borelli, ....) are not going to be true wild form so pick the one colour you like and enjoy it. Those species that only come in one form (such as panduro and nijjensi) are likely to be close to wc form.
As for wild borelli...
Some pictures - look a little different than yours:
None of your or tom's picture shows the wavy lateral line; but they are described in your description of the species-group.
Are these a more aggressive or more passive species and cooler or warmer waters ? My limited research suggest they would want 80ish temp based on the river water temp; but tom's website has 78 in one location and 75 in another. Nothing on aggression; he mentioned it similar to cockatoo and...
My experience is i had a set of 4 that i obtained at 1/4 inch; when they were full grown i had 2 clear females and a male; but no one had a clue of sex of #4; most thought it was a male (it was fairly large) and so the debate went for a couple of months and finally it laid eggs so i guess that...
So with the new substrate this a week later the ec was 10; so i guess this means the substrate does not leach but even a small amount of leaves or similar can significantly raise the ec. I.e., @MacZ was right.
If this is what you mean by sail fins:
Then these have sail fins but definitely not spiky - i sort of personally consider sail fin and spiky fins not compatible ;)
I think this is normal my vague memory is they behave a bit like kribs in that until the pair forms there will be chasing. However i don't recall any real damage and it is normal for them to hide for period of time to 'rest'. I would say they should settle down in a couple of weeks. Also do you...