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I have a 20g long with about 40 apistogramma panduro fry from 5-15mm long. They get twice daily bbs and weekly 40% water changes. A few have been scooting along the bottom (maybe 3 or 4). I figured they just needed culling.
Came in this morning and a few were hovering at the top and 4 of the...
I'd like to locate some literature on the effects of hardness and ph on spawning in SA fish, or any papers where the results might have a bearing on our sect of the hobby. Pseudo scientific papers would be good also, but I'm really looking for journal articles and the like. If it's linkable...
I am currently growing out about 25 hongsloi fry in a bare bottomed 20g long tank. The fry get live bbs at least once if not twice a day. Tank gets 50% WC weekly.
Right next to this tank is a sand bottomed breeding tank that is overrun with java moss, algea, water lettuce, and has a...
I've been trying to spawn a beautiful pair of panduros for 9 months now (got fertile eggs several times, but no free swimmers). Well yesterday the male managed to jump out of a 2X3 hole in the tanks plexiglass top and get stuck between the top and the hood. Fish chip! What a waste. I'm pretty...
Water chem question. I had a customer at the LFS I work at tell me that his water params were gh=6 kh=5 and ph=6.0 (adjusted using peat and blackwater extract). I on the other hand cannot seem to lower my ph below 7.0 despite the fact that my kh is nearly undetectable due to the use of RO...
Water chem question. I had a customer at the LFS I work at tell me that his water params were gh=6 kh=5 and ph=6.0 (adjusted using peat and blackwater extract). I on the other hand cannot seem to lower my ph below 7.0 despite the fact that my kh is nearly undetectable due to the use of RO...
My female A. cacatuoides's belly is distended, her eyes seem to be "poping out" slightly, and there is some red coloration behind the gills. I also noticed some stringy feces today. It's not as bad as the obove description sounds however. she is eating and swiming normally, and showing normal...
My female panduro is getting ready to spawn for the third time. I still have yet to see any fry or even wigglers. After she spawns she stays in the cave for about a day and a half (just long enough for her to discover the eggs are infertile). The gh is at around 1.5dh and ph is 6.8. The...
Hey, I need your guys help to settle an arguement that is going on at another forum. There is a very experienced breeder who swears that you should never have to lower ph (below what you can achieve using straight RO water) in order to get apistos to spawn, only TSS and GH matter. Cast your vote.
I've been having a small fugus problem in my 10g apisto "honeymoon suite". Since there are only 2 fish, sometimes they miss pieces of the "Formula One" frozen food that I feed them as a staple in the mornings. By the next day the food is covered in fungus. I never had this problem in my 29g...
Just got some new plants and picked up some hitchhikers (small conical snails). Will the apistos eat them, or should I try to crush them when I see them. Will they sneak into the cave and eat eggs?
Well, for those of you who have not seen my previous threads, I am currently trying to spawn a stuborn pair of panduros. I have moved the pair into a 10g, and using ro water have brought hardness down to about 35ppm, and ph down to 6.4 (going to drop it down to 6.0 eventually).
Here's my...
I have been purchasing R/O water from a lfs here in that sells it for $0.59/gal. I started using it in order to soften the water in a ten gallon containing a pair of apistos. Recently I began adding tetra blackwater to begin taking the ph down, since the soft water alone wasn't triggering a...
Ok, so I'm ready to start monkeying with my ph in order to get a reluctant pair of A. panduros to spawn. They are well bonded, and performing pre-spawning "fish slaps" and "shimies" on a regular basis. I moved them to a ten gallon and have been fasting them for about a week in preparation for...
I have a local aquarium club auction coming up and a 10g tank that will be opening up. I'd like to put a pair of apistos in it, but I know a 10g is on the small side. Besides A borelli, what are some other smaller apistos that would do well? Although not an apisto, would a pair of kribs work...
When I set up my 10g tank I started to get hair algea growing on side and on rocks that were under the light. I kinda wanted the tank to have that overgrown with hair algea look to it. Now the hair algea is being replaced by brown and green algea (don't want that). Anyway to cater to the hair...
I've seen numerous posts about using rainwater to keep the softwater loving apistos. I asked an employee at a lfs about using it instead of the r/o water I get from them. This store specializes in fish and generally has very knowledgeable employees. He said I would need to filter a 5g bucket...
I have a pair of panduros that have been in a tank for nearly a month. They paired up and started picking on 2nd female (removed) very quickly. The female took on a yellow color that rivals what I've seen in my female cac when she's had eggs. Both male and female were in and out of caves and...
Here are some pics of my tanks. The first one is a 29g community with a pair of A. panduros (seen in the "sand box" lower right) as the centerpiece species, and a pair of angels that will eventually get the tank to themselves or get donated to one of the schools I work at.
The second tank...
Hey everyone, the "boss" has just given me the go ahead to set up one more tank (yessss!). I'm going to do a 20g long shellie tank and want suggestions as to which species to stock it with. Here are the attributes I'm looking for:
-ability to keep more than one male in the tank
-lots of...