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Predator defense mode. A moving fry I'd easily detected. Any time they are satiated they will drop and freeze. When digestion catches up they go on the hunt again. Partially this is because they are neither as fast nor as nimble when full.
Aggression is meaningless in determining sex. A male will be just as hard on a single female until they start to court. I have also seen females, particularly guarding broods, beating up much layget males. Aggressive behaviour is a territorial facet and even females stake out homrs.
I avoid all tetras due to their love o small mobile foods. Even hatchetfish will pick off fry. For most apistos I use micro corydorus (gracilis, hastatus, habrosus, or pygmaeus). For larger species I use rams and remove them after spawn. They are hearty enough to take a beating and fast enough...
I am a filtration radical. My two 180 gallon system's (3@60&1@30::&9@20) each has a filter that holds 400 gallons. By the time water gets through the filter all waste products are eliminated.
I have found that hastatus so better in shoals of twenty or more. You will oiregularly find pygmaeus in shops as hastatus. Hastatus the lateral dark line is not bordered by lighter colored lines and has a break at the operculum picking up again at front of eye. Pymaeus the line is finer, is...
Take a good look at this picture. "Branching" or "budding" is the way hydra generally reproduce. The buds separate from the parent and "tumble" away. Tumbling is locomotion by placing tentacles on substrate and flipping over to new location. If they are medicated, Poisoned, they will spore...
Hydra do not magically appear,they came in on something, or in rainwater or other water left outdoors uncovered to age. Some adult apistos will eat them but they are deadly to apisto fry. Larger cory species fry over two weeks free-swimming should be more of a threat to the hydra than the hydra...
Clown loach is not a good tank mate for dwarf American cichlids. Different water requirements, gets far too large, and tends to bully and pick scales. Dwarves ussually do well with angels but rams can sometimes be un-settling for angels. Six or seven small apistos, two males and the rest...
as long as food is eaten you cannot over feed growing fish. If their food supply is heavy they just grow faster. If it is too light they become stunted. the thing you have to remember is growth rate equals food need. Typically apistos are going to double their size three times in the first week...
I have a female like this watching a clutch right now. Western strain coloration. From finnage I would say pair is about seven months old and will need about six to eight more weeks to be ready to spawn. Start feeding frozen daphnia and cyclops and you will know in about six weeks one way or...
Some will breed continuously for six months and some once or twice a season. I advocate a "dirty" tank for apistos. The fry will graze algea beds and sides of tank until they can take larger fare. Most newborn apistos feed off of bacteria and infusoria for the first two days they are free-swimming.
there is no formulaic answer. You must consider length of day,intensity, and range of lighting. you must also remember that plant density can have an adverse effect on oxygenation at night. At night plants give off CO2 and absorb oxygen just like fish.
I use a three inch piece of pvc pipe 1 1/4 inch thinwall. Easily concealed, easily sterilized,and cheap so if it becomes compromised you throw it out. two more females and another male might solve aggression problem with male towards females. If he is constantly competing and breeding he has no...
Many apistos actually breed in groups. Usually males set overlapping territories and service several females each. I usually set up tanks for aggassizi with two males and five females in a fifty-five. Sometimes all females will brood at the same time.