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I am moving, and am giving away my 2 year old F A. Eliza. I am looking for a high quality home and someone who has experience with Apistos.
She is wild caught and has bred before.
Anyone interested?
Unfortunately I lost the male. He was being chased for probably 3 straight days by the female and just finally went into a sort of "death spiral" and landed on the base of the tank, while still being tail slapped by the female.
It is still unbeleivable to me how aggressive this species...
Thanks Blue,
Do you have any "best practices" for rearing fry? Is it absolutely necessary to seperate the parents? How do you make sure that there is adequate food for them? At what point/size do you take them out of the tank altogether?
I still am shocked at how that little female...
Thanks for your replies. I am most surprised at how the smaller female could bully the male, who typically is 100% in charge of the tank.
In fact, the reason why she was so aggressive is that she was guarding actual fry. I removed the cave and poured the contents into a glass and saw very...
Hello,
I am hoping to get some suggestions on how to deal with the following scenario in my 40 gallon breeder tank that houses a pair of Apisto Elizabethae:
My female Apisto has been guarding eggs in her cave for about a week now. The PH of my water is 6.5, so there is no chance of them...
I have had the fish for 10 months now. He has been healthy until recently. He was wild caught.
He is still eating and acting normal. I have upped his feeding regimen to include a variety of foods, including more live frozen foods and vitamin enriched freeze dried. His sore appears to be...
The fish is not quite a year old yet - he is an Apisto Elizabethae. Yes, it started flat and then became a small white pimple and then became a bit fuzzy and seems to have broken the skin.
He has had this for about 2-3 weeks now. Still eating normal and chasing other fish, and trying to get...
My Apisto has a small growth right on the top of his head, just behing his eyes. It started as a speck a few weeks ago and has grown larger and is a little bit fuzzy. It looks as though it has broken through his skin.
Is this hole in the head disease? The fish is still eating, chasing...
my 2 year old apisto seems to have gone blind, or close to it, over the past week. she is not able to eat at this point. she now has a small white pupil in each eye.
any idea what this is? just old age possibly? \
unfortunately, the only course of action seems to be euthanasia.
Nice fish!
What kind of leaves are those? Did you collect them yourself?
I have also been considering adding oak leaves to simulate the leaf litter from their natural habitat.
My Elizabethat were collected from Sao Gabriel. Or, at least that was the information on the wholesaler's list I purchased them from. Was he mistaken on the locality?
I think that I know the wholesaler who is exporting them to Asia. That is where I received my order from. He is located in Canada, but has a rather large minimum order $$$ size. He sent me some very high quality Eliza, and gets a good variety of apistos every month.
It was worth it...
Yes, they have bred off and on, while they were held alone (with a few cardinal dithers) in their 40 gallon breeder tank.
Since I introduced an older female, they have not bred. Although, they still "dance" around each other and court. But, haven't "sealed the deal."
The older female...
This male pictured here lost the battle over territory, although he started out as the dominant one. I started out with 2 males and 2 females Eliza in my 40 gallon breeder. Now I only have 1 male left.
I have had a female Apisto Eliza for about 1 year and 3 months. My guess is that she is almost 2 years old now. She is looking a little frail and shimmies (or looks a bit wobbly) just a bit when she swims very slowly or hovers. The shimmying started probably 2-3 months ago. Is this normal...
My A Eliza female seems to hover just outside the male's cave at night. There are plenty of other hiding spots, so i am not sure what is going on. She was recently introduced to the tank, so maybe she is trying to take the cave from the male (it is the same type of cave as she claimed in her...