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Thank you for the input Darrel. I will try to get my hands on a culture of vinegar eels. For now i will use a ball of moss with a squeezed out filter sponge.
Loved to read your post on this species. It’s a fascinating species
Succes! Some of the eggs hatched in the breeder box. Biggest problem for now, these fry are unbelieveably tiny. I put some baby brine shrimp in, but they seem to be almost the same size.....
Does someone have some suggestions on what to feed them?
Hi all,
I keep 5 Copella Arnoldi as dither fish in my community tank. I have acquired this species since the beginning of November. Although never my intent, this species seems to love my tank and is constantly laying eggs against the lid. The eggs are fertilised as baby fish can be seen when...
Hi Rasmus,
My experience might throw your theory of but let’s have a go any ways... I was supposed to get 4 Apistogramma sp. D37 1 male and 3 female. However the supposedly male, turned out to be a female. As the hobbyist who supplied me with this lovely species, live quite a distance away for...
I keep green neons with my harem of Apistogramma sp. D37. They are great combination, but I suspect them from eating some fry. Which is fine by me as I don't have room to raise big groups of fry. I do currently have a female sp D37 that is guarding fry and I am pretty sure the fry are too big to...
Best confirmation one can get about have a male and female, I just spotted some fry! Funny enough it is the smallest female who is the most dominant female and the first female to have fry. As the female is still very small and young, and so is the male it is only a small batch of about 10-15...
Just a quick update. The 4 sp. D37 that I received all turned out to be females. All 4 females were laying eggs, but none ever hatched. Lucky the person I bought them from still had a male. This time we are sure it is a male. Hopefully we will see some fry soon!
New sp. D37 male
A photo of your tank would help as well. Also make sure the enterances of the caves are not too big. For example my sp. D37 female chose a small savu pod right in front of the glas to breed. If you look closely you can see a few white eggs inside the cave.
I also provided a full tank picture...
Apistogrammas mostly refuse to eat dry foods, I would therefore recommend frozen brine shrimp or live food. Apistogrammas come from dense areas with lots of leaves and low light. They like to hide if they don’t feel secure. I’ve had apistos hide for over a month before they felt secure enough to...
Good point made about the sand substrate, i totally missed that. Please be carefull with feeding too much bloodworm, this has high risk of causint bloat at Apistogrammas. I would suggest to feed frozen brine shrimp and only frozen bloodworms once in a while.
I’ve had my pair of Apistogramma Megaptera F1 spawn a few times. In my opinion fairly easy to breed, but they can get quite agressive. I think my water parameters were ph 6-0-6.5 with the kh at arround 2-3 i believe. Temp was arround 25-26 degrees celcius.
Anything else you would like to know?
Although I don’t have any experience, I have seen Mike recommended this multiple times for community tanks. I think however that 10 may be a bit too much. It also requires that they are all different species and introducing them at once would be aquired. I think this would also work best with...
No need to go for plastic plants, mosses, java ferns and anabias are really easy plants. Ofcourse they grow better (faster and more dense) with high ligh, co2 and fertilizer, but they will do fine without all these things. Real plants have a lot of advantages over plastic plants. They remove...
Have you orderd before from ruinemans? I’ve heard quite some terrible stories and my experience with the fish from my local lfs who buys their fish from ruinemans isn’t great either. Definetly have some quarentine tanks and medication ready.
Ferilizers increase the TDS of your tank. The lower the TDS the better for Apistogrammas. It looks like you only have cabomba in your tank. I would stop using liquid fertilizer in your tank. In my opinion you dezerve an award if you manage to kill cabomba. In my tank it grows like weed and I...
I find that corydoras and breeding are not a good combination. I would take them out regardless of your issue. I am wondering what your current water parameters are. Could you please give us more information about that. A picture of the tank may be usefull as well.