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About month ago I got these fishes as a pair of Laethacara Dorigera. Recently I posted it on some other forum and I got reponse that they might be two females not a pair. What do you think?
The only symptoms I can observe are folded fins and scratching. Ocassionally fish is shaking like it wanted to shake something off. Fish do not loose colors and eat normally but gradually start staying apart form others. It attacks only Macmasteri and related apsitos so far. Other fish including...
For reasons beyond my control I was forced stay outside of US for two months. I left my tankes under supervision of my co-worker who never got aquarium. He was asked to drop weekend food once every couple days. To make it even worse I forgot and switched off heating in two tanks. I thought...
I bought 3 very small fish as A. Macmasteri. After while each one seems to be different. Two look more or less like Macmasterii but third one looks quite strange. Any idea what it could be:
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I was wondering why female abandoned her fry after one month. At first I thought that another one have eggs so I cannot have to angry mothers in 40l tank but yesterday I was a little suprised when I so to females with group of fry 10cm from each other.
In general I noticed that this apistos...
It looks like fry survived only 10 days in my community tanks. Is there any safe way to move free swimming fry to other tank? I think next time I will simply try to suck them to a bucket.
I don't know if my tap water is so bad or it is typical? After 3-5 weeks of usage productions of my 15GPD unit drops to 3GPD. Quality is still good but output quantity makes it almost useless. Line pressure is the same about 50. I have to replace carbon filter every two months. I start...
It looks September was my lucky month, first A. sp. 'Cara Pintada' spawned then I got double spawn of A. cacatuoides in my main tank. I really happy to observe how different parental behavior can be. It looks that cacs are far more aggressive parrents and males participating much more in...
I was a witness of a conversation in store between 'wanna-be-discus-keeper' and store employee. I guess (I have never kept them) it's possible to keep discus in tap water as long as it is clean when you are not going to breed them. Store employee was trying to sell this person some chemicals to...
I got premixed bags from SG Bay Brand and I could not make them hatch. At first I thought temperature is too low but when I mixed salt and eggs I bought separately (I guess different strain they are more reddish) it works in the same enviroment. I just just regular kitchen salt but probably I...
Couple months ago I bought what supposed to be trio of A. macmasteri on auction in local fish club. After while it seems that all of them grow the same, about 2". It seems that I got all males but like two color variations. Two are like Macmasteri from books, basically reddish, orange dorsal...
In May I bought 6 small fish about 1/2". Now the biggest is about 1 1/2" and smallest about 1". Two days ago I did huge water change in my 12G tank, left 2" and replace rest with RO water. Water parametrs next day after change: pH 6.15, TDS 54, conductivity 96uS. Yesterday evening I noticed...
I haven't been at home for couple days and when I came back I noticed
that one of my apistos has something on its head. Fish seems to
behave normally but I do not know if this it an infection or wound.
Is it malachite green good for treating wounds?
Females always got black first rays of ventral fins while males have these fins transparent. It seems to work most of the time even before fish get adult coloration. I was trying to apply this rule on my cara-pintadas. I am a bit confused. I got two sexes for sure but it seems unlikely that...
I was too busy and I had not changed water for 3 weeks. One Day I noticed that A. Macmasteri is swimming upside down. I check water parameters. Phosfates were off chart. I did quick 50% water change, and another next day. Phosfates are down and fish are swimming normally again :P Is back style...
I setup small tank in which initially I got betta female. Recently I add pair of young Cacatuoides. It was quite interesting experience. Betta quickly learned Apisto body language, opening gills, tail shaking, to scare off opponent. Hierarchy has been established Cacatuoides male, betta, Cac...
I got small group of 1.5" Cara Pintadas. They stay in tank with adult Bolivian Ram. So far I noticed that Ram was chasing them when I was serving food but recently the biggest of youngsters is really attacking Ram. It is 10 times smaller :twisted:
My aggies have stopped breeding. They kept spawning every couple weeks in late winter and early sprint. Now male is not even chasing her very much. I guess they need some rest.
I have bought RO unit and I am little bit confused with water parameters I received. It seem that conductivity is quite low in coparison to tap water. I used formula given by SpectraPure I got 88% rejection rate (should be 98% for new unit I guess). The another thing that does not seem to be...