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  1. MickeM

    Diets to induce spawning of apistogramma

    Hi !! I use frozen+ live Artemia as regular standard food.. ..and sometimes I give them live Californian Blackworms or live Black/White Mosquitolarvae. The froozen Artemia will often be enough to get them ready for spawning..(Feed the female some extra .., or the male will take it all/the...
  2. MickeM

    Keeping and Breeding A. Ortegai

    I didn`t test my pH when I bred them, but I guess it must have been approx. 6,5...!! (Temp- 24-26C ! )
  3. MickeM

    Cupid's Arrow

    Nice to see them with the parents!! :) Thanks for sharing..!
  4. MickeM

    And the winner is.....

    .. and among these are some more micro/nano-pics in water ... https://www.wired.com/2009/10/photomicrography/
  5. MickeM

    And the winner is.....

    Nikon Small World 2016 Photo Contest !! http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/19/arts/nikon-small-world-photo-contest-2016/index.html
  6. MickeM

    Help with my Apistos

    Found this info/maps .. (U.S.) It might "shed a light" of/to your situation??? http://water.usgs.gov/edu/hardness.html
  7. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    Hi Phile + all.. Well, actually I have only kept the eggs for myself, so I have never sorted eggs out of the peat !! I got fry from Hypsolebias picturatus + Leptolebias citrinipinnis this way..just drying the peat for some months, then put into water for hatching.. I keep most...
  8. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    I use one of these.. http://shop.akvariehobby.se/sv/ror-bojar/694-insugssil-9-12-mm.html
  9. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    Some thoughts about peat-tanks maitanance.. I always try to keep some Planorbarius corneus in my tanks..they are excellent "cleaners".., and probably makes a big difference if you are feeding excessively ?? (Eating all various restproducts+ dead leaves/plants+ some algae....and they always...
  10. MickeM

    Apisto ID

    I`d say it is a female..(Short pelvicfins, no visable colors on fins+gillcover, short endings on anal+dorsalfins, lacking elongated dorsal-spines -the first 1-6 spines ??? ) But if it is a very small/young specimen, it may be a sneaker-male..
  11. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    If the peat is not of minimum-size(sometimes sold in gardenshops) I would: - Boil it and put it in a "wide" net( regular green fish net from any zoomarket, not the white one with narrow stitches).. - Shake it in a bucket of some water so the smallest particles can flush/drip out. - Move some...
  12. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    Well.. it doesn`t have to be that difficult.... If you have some brown bog-peat you may just boil it for 2-3 minutes.., shake off the dusty "soil"-particles and put a small ittle piece of it in your tank.. to see what the reaction will be.. and then add some more weekly if you like it... After...
  13. MickeM

    Female hongsloi?

    OK.. It might be a difficult task for a young hongsloi male to manage/maintain a territory of his own then.., on the other hand it probably will give the two hongsloi some time with the same conditions.. later when the hongsloi male gets the chance, he will become the dominant one!! For the...
  14. MickeM

    Female hongsloi?

    Many thanks willzs.. ..it is the result of 30-35 years of practice+failure.. and still learning!!!:) ( Or as a friend of mine constantly reminds me.., - "Make sure you don`t fail with the "wrong"/rare species.. Cause if we/you do., we will soon have very few left...!!" :(;) ) ...
  15. MickeM

    Female hongsloi?

    .. and also.. my experience/from what I know.. ..hongsloi males often have some red color on/by "the root" of the caudalfin, behind the caudal-spot... even when beeing young !!!
  16. MickeM

    Female hongsloi?

    One more thing.. Males will show dominance to all other/new fishes if possible. New females in a territory which are not ready to spawn will also be chased away.. until they show him the correct signals to reproduce!! (Large females may beat up a "weak" male!!):confused::eek:;) After the 1st...
  17. MickeM

    Female hongsloi?

    I`m afraid you have replaced it with a macmasteri "female"..!!! I would have a go with the 1st one!!!(Most probably a female I`d say/guess..!!).. and give them a month or two to adapt to the situation.. (unless aggression is increased too much.., I couldn`t see any broken fins on the 1st one...
  18. MickeM

    Apistogramma piaora

    Awesome Bangala !! Thanks for sharing..!!
  19. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    ..and also.... I would not put any Apistos in a non-filtered "Peat-tank" without acclimatizing them into this kind of water for some weeks first.. in a "normal" tank or in a quarantine-tank!!! And..as Darrell says... peat is often a spawning substrate for killiefishes in tanks.. But it is also...
  20. MickeM

    Sphagnum peat bottom

    BTW.. Do not miss this !!!
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