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I have a viejita female which has raised various amounts of broods of borellii (3), agassizii (2), papagei (3) and baenschi (4) fry, as well as her own (1). it all started when needed more space and she just happened to have fry, so I dumped some borellii fry with her. once they were bigger, I...
maybe these will help, they are all of the same buck at different stages of blurryness ... sorry about that, most were taken on my phone ... and ages. He's big and mean now, but not as mean as his gurl.
unfortunately I don't think that's entirely correct to assume. if the deaths were caused by aggression then you didn't provide the proper environment (plants, tank size are all a factor, although 40 gallon should be ample ... so we're back to plants) for them to be able to play out their natural...
Milk
have you tried grinding some of your pellets into powder and dusting your bloodworms with some of it before feeding? In my experience eventually the fish get to know the taste of the pellets and are easier to ween onto straight pellet feedings. I've had some pretty stubborn fish in my time...
it's hard, here in australia we're as far removed from the source as we get, and the net doesn't offer much info, if any, on the species on this list, as I'm going through it ... it's weird to have this list as a hard copy which looks like something they're sure of and then half of it is made up...
most of you probably know the peruvian export list ... as you're aware a lot of the names on that list are either outdated, incorrect or unvalidated. One of our local importers has imported a few fish through this list, and a couple of the fish I haven't been able to find much info on, if anyone...
Yeah, I bought them as A. baenschi Inka 50, they're F1, here's a couple of stills
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i208/taxman69/Inka_male.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i208/taxman69/Inka_female.jpg
and this is them defending their castle against a persistent A. agassizii double red...
for all you girls out there who wonder how its done?
this is how!
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i208/taxman69/?action=view¤t=Inkashenanigans.flv
(guaranteed to work for fishnerds, too :wink: )
cheers
Chris
this is a short vid of a male and female A. papagei courting ... she's all beautiful swan lake dying swan falling leaf grace and beauty in her movements and he seems a bit of a clumsy Conan in trying to impress her.
anyway, enjoy...
A common misconception is that because they're called "dwarves" they don't need a large tank, but in the wild their territories may actually be quite large and also in nature, the victim of an aggressor can just swim away, where in the narrow confines of a small tank such confrontations and...
I've also had the same experience with fry travelling between tank halves, but I wasn't so lucky that both the girls were with brood. The female without fry ate the ones that came through the screen. I've since siliconed a pane of opaque glass down the center of the tank which reaches to half...
I had a pair of cacatuoides in a planted 10 gallon tank with rocks in it and introduced 2 tropical freshwater shrimp. The next morning I came in and the two shrimp were torn apart and dead as doornails. Not only that, but my female cac was dead, too with part of a shrimp hanging out of her mouth...