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"White pimples"
It sounds like you might have a case of Hexamita. If you let things continue as is you would probably see the "white pimples" erupt into small red sores w/ a hole in the middle. My experience says to treat w/ metro orally (put a little metro in some blackworms or other food and...
A. eunotus
I keep & breed A. eunotus, they are actually one of my favorite Apisto species. Some of the things I've learned seem to contradict the literature on this species. I keep mine at a ph of 5.5 to 6.2 and a GH of 1 degree or less. My experience with breeding is that with harder water...
Does anyone have any breeding pointers to share w/ me on Taeniacara candidi? I have a trio (w/ 2 young females & adult male) in a custom 48"x18"x10" tank, it's approx 35 gal. Also in w/ them are a very fecund trio of A. agassizii, a juvie trio of A. borellii, corys & a couple of pit bulls. The...
RO collection?
It seems to me that for a few more dollars using a "real" water storage tank, available at most farm supply stores, would be good solution. I have a 165 gallon tank and it came w/ bulkhead & ready to plumb. It cost a little over $100. Works exceptionally well in a garage, they're...
Rams & Cacs
I've had very good luck mixing Rams w/ many Apisto species. Some minor territorial disputes but they don't get real serious. I'd stay away from mixing using large full grown males. If one of the two groups (Rams or asst Apistos) are juvies they seem to mix very well. One comment I...
KH vs GH
I've played around w/ water hardness alot over the past year or so. Following are my observations -
1) KH doesn't matter, except for providing buffer against ph crashes, I do 50% water changes every other day so that's not a factor in my tanks
2) GH does matter, I've tried...
Thanks
Thank you everyone for your help w/ this. I had originally thought it was A.viejita/gold but wasn't sure.The line between macmasteri & viejita has certainly gotten blurred. I just looked up definitions of "albinism" in fish and it really gets complicated. It's sure nice to have a...
Stein babys
Hello - I have 2 breeding groups of A. steindachnari, both w/ 1 male and 3 females. The research I originally did when setting up tanks for these (both 20L) was that water hardness wasn't really an issue. My experience now tells me otherwise. After several failed attempts at...
Albino?
Would'nt the eyes also lack dark pigments in an albino form. As for A. macmasteri as id I suspect you've fallen into the same trap I originally did and many of us do when id'ing this species. Look again.
I could use some help on this one, I think I know what he is but confirmation would be great. He's about 8cm nose to start of caudal. He's part of a pair, momma is about 5cm and pretty much solid yellow/gold pinkish with a little red one her face and no black markings at all.
Thanks
About two weeks ago I noticed that 6 juvie Discus in one of my grow out tanks looked bad. My first reaction when fish look sick is a water change, so I went ahead and did a 50% change using straight R/O. 4 hrs later they were all dead. I don't like losing fish so I decided to play detective...
My question is why do you care what your ph is? My experience is that if you get the GH right the PH of your tank doesn't matter. I start with DI at a TDS of 6 ppm or less and then reconstitute with my tap water which is between 11 and 16 degrees hardness. I shoot for 1.5 degrees hardness (GH...
Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and have a couple of questions. Yesterday my one of my female A. Macmasteri layed eggs (her first time, I've had her since she was a small juvie) and I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
Here's some background on the tank - It's a 40g tall w/ 3 Macmasteri...