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  1. Bilbo

    Hi guys! I'm looking for some stocking suggestions for a 29 gal!

    The only time I have heard that they were coming into NZ it was rumored to be at $50 each. I would have bought them too :) I was told they all died in QT before getting to the shops.
  2. Bilbo

    peat moss

    I use the standard garden peat which looks like brown fibrous dirt to lower the pH and create black water when required. I use sphagnum moss in the same way I would use java moss. It sinks and looks like a bunch of dead twigs and leaves in miniature. It is great stuff for breeding tetra's or...
  3. Bilbo

    Hello all :D

    Hi and welcome :)
  4. Bilbo

    help needed for apisto tank mates

    I have been using the tiny flame and emerald eye rasbora recently just to see how they would go and neither tank of fry have had obvious losses. Oto's seem to work well too for cleanup fish.
  5. Bilbo

    Most colourful Apistogramma

    For my money 180L isn't really big enough for 2 or 3 pairs. As for most colourful that is personal preference. I am a big fan of any wild fish especially anything in blue like trifasciata and panduro etc. Bitaeniata, agassizii and borellii are beautiful as well. I think borellii are a great...
  6. Bilbo

    Apistos Cross Breeding?

    Apistogramma is a large genus containing hundreds of species in many species groups. Some possibly cross can but most cannot. We have a few apisto's that are probably crosses like the Apistogramma Sp. "Steel Blue" and I think there was another (possibly bitaeniata / agassizii) cross a few...
  7. Bilbo

    Dicrossus filamentosus

    Fantastic job. Send some my way :wink: We havent had then in NZ for a few years now
  8. Bilbo

    Unknown apisto

    For me this is the first post in this thread. What is the first post supposed to be?
  9. Bilbo

    Triggering Apisto Agassizi Spawn

    Once you have the water and the tank sorted out, as per the advice above, I find live daphnia or live mosquito larvae seems to condition the females better than frozen foods. A few days to a week of top quality food will most times get them in the mood.
  10. Bilbo

    Dicrossus maculatus

    Stunning fish. congrats. Never seen a real one but looking forward to getting them here one day.
  11. Bilbo

    Apisto Fry Question

    I have found it close to impossible to raise fry in a community tank. Many of the more senior members would hopefully agree that a community tank is not ideal to breed fish or raise fry. To make it even harder, the tetras you mentioned are far too quick and cunning for the poor mum apisto and...
  12. Bilbo

    Hi from singapore

    Welcome. Good to have you with us
  13. Bilbo

    New here from New Zealand

    Hi Joe. Great to see you over here. IMO 27c is a fraction high but other than that those fish are lovely. Very best of luck with them.
  14. Bilbo

    What do you feed your Apistogramma's?

    I have been very fortunate over this summer. An inlet close to our local beach is teeming with mysis shrimp and a friend on a farm has daphnia in most of the cow troughs and mossys in the water barrels so my fish have fed very well recently on live food. They also get de-capsulated BS every...
  15. Bilbo

    A Elisabethea

    That is fantastic. Congrats. I really like the tank setups, no fancy stuff just good natural looks aquariums.
  16. Bilbo

    help with breeding in community tank

    Exactly as Mike says. Its a lovely sight to see a mother protecting her brood and loads of fry swimming round a community tank but a school of tetras will make short work of them. I have seen a mother get so wound up that she will end up eating them herself.
  17. Bilbo

    Which are species of Bitaeniata

    Gosh they are a great looking fish. They are all bitaeniata if that was your question.
  18. Bilbo

    gobies with apisto's

    A few of us have already answered this for you. Gobies wont be like soft acidic water and bitaeniata will suffer badly in hard alkaline water. You should not keep these two fish together in the same tank. If you try to have a mid range tank to keep them both then neither of them will be happy.
  19. Bilbo

    A Elisabethea

    :) sounds like good news. These are beautiful fish that seem to be fairly rare in the hobby so best of luck. And I will lead the call for photos :biggrin:
  20. Bilbo

    apisto bitaeniata & cacatuoides

    I would say that a 60ltr tank is to small for 2 types of apisto's. I am also not a fan of gobies in an apisto tank because they require hard, alkaline water and the bitaeniata is a black-water fish.
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