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  1. boofeng

    Apistogramma from Brazil and Peru

    Konnichiwa Taka-san Welcome to the forum! I have seen your beautiful photos on other social media platforms for many years. Thank you for sharing them all the time. By the way, if there are articles or other interesting apisto-related content that you would like to translate from Japanese to...
  2. boofeng

    Hello from Taiwan

    No worries, Casper. I also check in only infrequently. And your English is much better than my Mandarin, I'm sure. Re: translations - it's easy! I just cut and paste and do some Google-fu! Thank you for the shop recommendations - I've never been to Taiwan and hope I'll have a chance to one...
  3. boofeng

    Hello from Taiwan

    Hi Casper, welcome. Not many of us from the orient here - I'm from Singapore. If you ever come by let us know, there are a couple of apisto lovers here who would love to meet up and bring you around. By the way, my friend has a relative heading to Kaohsiung soon and asked me to look up apisto...
  4. boofeng

    Apistogramma breeding

    I vaguely recall watching documentaries showing some mammal carry their cubs, still too young to walk, by the scruff of their necks one by one from one den to another. Usually it's in response to some sign of a predator being nearby or something. My memories of these are quite dim now, the only...
  5. boofeng

    Test kits for GH and KH?

    If your TDS meter isn't getting a high reading, your GH and KH can't be high. GH measures 2+/3+ metal cations, and KH test kits measure total alkalinity (as Darrell mentioned), not just carbonate alkalinity, i.e. all anions of weak acids/bases e.g. bicarbonate, phosphate, etc. All these cations...
  6. boofeng

    Need help with some ID!

    Hey Azizan, very nice fish! It was good to see them that day :) Hi Mike and Frank, it's always awesome when you guys shine light on taxonomy stuff. Thanks for that! :) Yesterday I visited a friend (Edwin) who also obtained some fish from this Colombia shipment. These two fish below are the...
  7. boofeng

    Whats more rare Agassizii?

    Rarity is a funny thing. Currently, there seems to be far more Ivanacara adoketa (and their fry!) swimming in Singaporean hobbyists' tanks than all species of Apistogramma combined, going by what I see on social media. Something is beautiful and rare, and thus considered desirable, and then...
  8. boofeng

    Help ID my apistogramma

    I think the same way :)
  9. boofeng

    Selling A. diplotaenia (I'm in Singapore)

    I sent them all to an exporter because there isn't much demand in Singapore. Some went to a hobbyist Jit, in KL, Malaysia. I don't know of any local hobbyists raising them any more. Sorry!
  10. boofeng

    Hello from Singapore

    Hello and welcome! I'm from Singapore too! :D
  11. boofeng

    Taikong Ornamental Fish

    Is it the same company as this? https://www.ofish.org/user/1684 If it is, Azoo is one of their brands. Lots of Azoo products are sold in Singapore. So I'd say the company is quite reputable. In general, shipments of dwarf cichlids from Taiwan come in with much more accurate IDs compared to...
  12. boofeng

    Please help me understand the macmasteri complex!

    Hello Recently I have been noticing more wild-caught macmasteri-looking fish turn up at the local fish shops. Can someone identify them, and does anyone have a good guide for identifying them? These fish are listed as A. sp. Tame: Some of the fish have an interesting caudal spot which is...
  13. boofeng

    ID request - A. commbrae?

    Hello again, helpful people! It has been more than a year and the fish are amazingly still in the same display tank at Green Chapter, Singapore. (Sadly, they are not selling the fish, and there are no females too, it seems.) Here are some photos of the fish. Does anyone have a better idea now...
  14. boofeng

    Leaves

    I remember what you said about saponins in rambutan tree leaves, Darrel, but nowadays I'm helping a friend who has a pond raising whiteleg shrimp (L. vannamei) and one long edge of the pond is an entire row of rambutan trees. The dry leaves get into the water in some quantity. But it's quite a...
  15. boofeng

    Sitting and not eating after 2 day shipping

    I'm currently nursing a pair of Abacaxis that arrived several days ago from Taiwan. The shipment got stuck for three days due to a local holiday before a weekend. Anyway the usual way fish are shipped internationally here in Asia is in tiny bags, with barely enough water for the fish to swim...
  16. boofeng

    Leaves

    If you have tropical ornamental or fruit trees near you, I've found that guava and fiddle- leaf fig have very durable leaves that last up to six months in water.
  17. boofeng

    A. sp. Breitbinden - male or female?

    Yea, I'm getting used to this, I think! I'll just see how things develop. Thank you! :) (You're probably right too about them being A. megaptera, the male fish in this batch all show longer anterior than middle dorsal spines, I'm attaching a photo of another fish from the same import - not mine.)
  18. boofeng

    A. sp. Breitbinden - male or female?

    Thanks, Mike! The fish is at least 3 cm standard length, probably 3+ cm (that's above an inch, maybe around one and a half inches). It should be pretty mature, the import was a while back (about January or February), and they came in reasonably large and well-developed already. The middle...
  19. boofeng

    A. sp. Breitbinden - male or female?

    Hello Below are photos of a single fish, the supposed "female" of a pair passed to me by a friend. The fish came in a Colombia import and were sold as A. sp. Breitbinden. From the photos, is it possible to positively ID the sex of the fish? Thanks!
  20. boofeng

    Noob Trying to Create a Breeder Tank - Optimal number of pairs?

    This is an often-asked question here. Maybe do a quick search? I can't remember every opinion on it, but my impression is most people here think: "no it's not ideal". I also know of no local guys who've done it successfully. I've had two or three trifasciata females raising broods...
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