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I don't have definitive proof of this, but anecdotally, I also find feeding live foods like baby brine to parents help get them in the mood to spawn more so than other forms of food. So I tend to also throw in live baby brine to pairs I'm trying to get to spawn as well.
I had a male atahualpa jump out of a tank once. The tank was on the top row of a rack and I happened to notice him in a tank of shell dwellers on the bottom row. I still have no idea how he managed to make that trajectory work, but thankfully he was fine.
These are from a spawn from a pair of apistos that was sold as atahualpa but I'm not positive. Are they really atahualpa and if not, anyone know what they actually are?