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These are the three fishes I purchased as a. elizabeth. The goal was 1m 1f so it was 1m and 2 potential females. I believe I have 1m and 2 females. I've had them for just short of 3 weeks. The first week only the male was out; the 2nd week i would occasionally see one of the female and starting...
I've had both blue and green form n anomala but every green form i've seen has been 1.5x larger than the blue form - i'm not sure if this size difference is due to how the domestic are being bred or if this is a characteristic of them in the wild hence the question.
(this size difference is in...
I'm not finding a decent temperature for a. elizabeth when i check various sites - so i'm unsure if they are a bit cooler 76-77 or warmer water 78-80 or something unique. Any pointers to a good source for an accurate temperature ?
I purchased 6 unsexed fishes as D39 mentioned in this thread:
https://apistogramma.com/forum/threads/d39.29756/
Over time they were killed one by one with 1 solid male and 2 solid females (i actually only found one corpse and it was the last male but at least one of the female had damage in the...
I've noticed a vast divergence in fry care bewtween my sp winkelfleck and my sp Ipiranga and my sp Bluketa so thought i would mention it here in case there is something specific about the species or species group to explain:
My sp winkelfleck seem to care for the fry 3 or 4 weeks until they...
I've been doing some searching on dicrossus fiorni temp range and can't find anything at all that seems reliable. I can't even find good pictures. Anyone know much about this species? Rather get d. filamentosus but fiorni are available.
For my a. sp blutkehl one easy way to sex them is via the tail as the male will develop a lyre tail at an early age. I tried looking at pictures of other fishes in the group like uaupesi and lineata - while the drawing for a male (tom's website description - shows a lyre tail on the male i don't...
When searing for something else i found this post from last year:
https://www.instagram.com/kevins.flossengenossen/p/DJJ_5BKoytl/?img_index=1
They describe it as a new species sp trombetas #3 but i don't see reference to it on Tom's website so i'm curious if it was a known species under a...
I'm leaning towards this being a female from the first two pictures but then i look at the third and i blink:
It has a soft pattern on the tail and it lacks the vertical bars the obvious male has (my male has not developed red tail like some pictures i've seen).
These fishes were sold as a. sp ladislao; they were originally in another aquarium and i moved them to a 29 with some n. marlyn dithers about 6 months ago. as far as I can tell they are full grown but have shown no interest in spawning. Looking through pictures on Tom's website i'm not even sure...
This is from a video i was watching - it was not the subject so was never in focus; the fins look different than most pencil and tetra i've seen. It looks slightly similar to white cloud but again a little different.
maybe tanichthys flavianalis?
I've had the male since Nov 2022 and he was a young adult so i guess he is around 24 to 34 months old:
The female had a recent spawn - 2 or 3 weeks ago. The aquarium is 100 gallons (24x48); there are a few f1s in there of various age and size. She has a 'favorite' spot so when i upgraded the...
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...
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...
As far as I can tell my a. sp ipiranga have formed strong pairs in that the male will not entertain other females. Is this a known behavior of all mouth brooders, of just ipiranga or my imagination.
Obviously i can't know if the pair forming behavior is temporary though i do know that the male...
I have a 29 with a pair of nijjensi (wc) and keri tetra. The general advice is to avoid cardinals since they will go after frys and cause a lot of stress. The reason for this post is that the keri do not seem to go after the frys nor does the female spend much time mucking with them.
For those...
In theory I picked up 6 young D39 and put them in a 29:
My wild inaccurate guess is these two are females
this picture is for @Mazan who will understand it:
I don't have any good pictures of the other 3 but will work on them - i think they are likely too young to sex at this point. Also...
I picked up a group of these and they are in that 1.5 inch range with one smaller one closer to 1.2 inches (group of 6):
This is the smallest one; at what point will they be sexable typically - if you have kept them; a google search suggest they aren't really sexable other than males being a...