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It is difficult to take this statement seriously because Apisto is a genus with many different species that have different behavior and level of aggression as well as looks. This ignores the fact that many species of Apisto require significantly cooler water.
Now i can grant you that there...
My wild caught discus get very upset if the temp gets below 81.5; i've tried various temps between 79 and 85 and once it gets below 81.5 they won't do much including eat. So i have the temp set to 84 and the tank ranges from 81.5 to 84.
As for dwarf cichild - rams work. 82 is a little warm for...
I might - i have to get my mesonauta egregius frys out of the 10 first. My a wolli breed constantly in a 29; my a. ladisalo spawned once in a 40b BUT the eggs were clearly not fertilize.
I have the ipiranga in ec 40 water @ 79 just in case that is an issue. Not sure why the ec is so high - the...
I had a pair of domestic kribs and the male/female would go after each other all day long for about 3 weeks until they decided they were a pair. It was a while ago and the exact species was not labelled - i knew very little about them so i picked up 4 for a 40B. Not sure it is related to this...
In general it works better to let the parents raise the frys however if the environment is unsuitable for fry raising (too many predators) then removing them is an option.
Here are two of my aquariums - feel free to tell me they are not done correctly:
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This aquarium has 2 male a. sp ladislo and 4 or 5 females. the dithers are kubotai rasbora and a few very young swordtails which i hope to remove soon. There are two dominant females one on the right and one...
Most species of pencil fishes work well - i personally like nannostomus marilynae.
Btw you will not be able to keep all 8 Agassiz in a 45 once they reach adult hood unless they are the same sex and even then it will not be guaranteed.
Here is a picture of the male - not sure what is up with the eye - he is still very alert and when i do things like water changes he will perk up and raise his fins but again stay on the substrate. He also still eats. The picture was taken a week ago and when he attempts to swim he goes in a...
I think this is species or perhaps individual specific as i don't seem to have a problem with the male eating frys with either my a. winkelfleck or a. Blutkehl; in fact i kind of which the blutkehl would eat a few given the very large number in the aquarium.
I have found for some of my larger cicihlds that carotenoid have a big influence on the amount of orange/red showing. However i have never intentionally fed anything with carotenoid to dwarf cichild and won't comment there. As a rule i don't intentionally feed a particular mineral or substance...
I don't know - i picked up a pair of 3/4 inch wild caught nijjensi 3 weeks ago and yesterday it appears they bred. I only been feeding them bug bites and once in 3 weeks some frozen foods. I only knew they bred because i did a health check on the female when i didn't see her after all i thought...
My experience is that it can take from being 1 inch and as soon as they touch the water (a. wolli); to over a year (if purchased as 1 inch) as was the case for one of my domestic female hongsloi - which i thought was a male as did most people.
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I currently have 2 species for around 6 months...
So far mine don't seem interested in breeding. I have a male and several females in a 65 (48x16); they behave almost pair like with the male and dominant female spending most of their time together almost pair like. The temp is ~80 as i believe they are an equator fish and the water condition is...