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They're doing really well, thank you @anewbie.
They've gained about 40% more mass (still incredibly small, we are going on 1 week).
I think my survival rate is 90% so far at a week, but I am seeing feeding behavior with the naked eye so I think that will stabilize. They are eating live BBS, a...
Difficult telling if the fry are eating. They haven't changed in size for a few days as far as I can tell. Live BBS and a first bite powder. Their count seems about the same as a couple days ago.
Will they pick live BBS and fry foods off the substrate?
How frequently do you feed for the first week or two?
I think I can muster about 4-6 times with work. Once in AM and a handful of times throughout the afternoon after work.
I will. I've been doing daily 15% water changes as this tank was previously neglected and slated for takedown this last weekend actually. I use a matten filter in this 20g long. It's about a 10 square inches of 2 inch thick filter at about 80 gallons an hour. The flow is low but it is incredibly...
I can tell they've been subsisting off of the veggie wafers for quite some time. The fry are immediately pecking at it with the mother.
I removed a couple of 'culled' rummynose tetras from my show tank. These 2 were sickly or of a different rummynose complex that got mixed in at the LFS and...
I wanted to update everyone. I took everyone’s consideration very seriously and I’ve begun to make an apisto specific biotope and have held the apistos back in my to-be decommissioned tank.
Now I need help. They have bred with literally zero effort within a month.
My goal now is to rear them...
My most successful tanks are a walstad-esque dirted tank with plenty of emerged growth and floating plants, and another with the same growth and principle housing my lonely macmasteri. The first is a sparkling gourami breeding facility.
The emersed growth is a must!
As that tank higher tech...
Both are clearly females now. They have really lit up!
Keep in mind these are smaller than they appear, they are only about .75”. All very young.
Our male is opalescent blue and completely colored up as well.
For any blanket concerns, the shiny tank that you see is a couple of months away before I add any Orinoco bioscape.
Here is the aim:
The intent is a presentable, Orinoco bioscape fit for a dozen tetra and a single pair of Apistogramma. It will include multiple beachwoods and caves.
I will...
That’s not the tank they are in, certainly not my subdued and mature tank. I’m not sure how you gathered that. This tank has a long way to go before I dim the lights and add floating plants and cave structures, let alone a living creature.
There’s simply not enough context that I’ve given for...
There is some mild aggression between the females. The male also picks on the third wheel. Everything okay so far. Plenty of life in the tank and no one is retreating to their nooks.
So I found a trio of young Panduros and did my best to get 1M2F. One had the massive black spot on its tail and was clearly a male. The other 2 I suspect are female and have black cowspots behind their gills. They both were in light yellow at the store and it wore off during the move to my...
Thank you very much. I had my father out for lunch and I mentioned the Carotenoid food. All he could do was laugh and said "We used that 40 years ago!".
So much to learn!
Do you prefer a brand/dose?
I suspect the Hikari micro pellets I use likely have some carotenoid sources in it.
Hi Mike,
Beautiful albino.
Thank you for the helpful information. I will probably be on the hunt for a pair of lighter Panduro.
I'm finding how difficult it is to find reproducible colors from online sources of even the same species. I understand males may simply have wildly different color...