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I've been using Siporax for almost a decade and haven't had any pH issues. It's supposed to be made from sintered glass which is chemically inert. I've used it in setups using ro water, tap water and even marine reef tanks
My rositae were surprisingly great parents and continued caring for their fry for a couple of months. After I finally got round to moving the fry to another tank, the pair immediately bred again so it seems to me that they held off laying another batch of eggs until the first batch were removed
I have had a pair for over 6 months and they're the shyest apistos in my rack. Hardly ever see them out except at feeding time and no spawning action that I am able to discern
What's your source water like? I run a full sized 400gpd ro unit at home for my fish room, but at my office where I'm more space constrained and the toilet is far from my room where my desk tank is, I have a small canister with deionization resin that I use. It uses those 10 inch height x 4...
Thanks, my cichlid atlas wasn't much help in providing guidance I'm not so patient to stare for 90 minutes so I'll probably end up with a male and a sneaker male, especially at the size they're at
I believe you got them from buy fish at Clementi? If I remember correctly the Apistogramma guttata were marked as wildcaught by Glaser. The Apistogramma atahualpa should be German bred.
I'm thinking of going to get a pair myself tomorrow if they still have females left.
Edit: It does look to...
I'm in Singapore and will be able to choose when they arrive. Pricing isn't an issue, but these fish are for my office tank and not home rack, so I'm trying to avoid having to catch out extras when they grow up
I thought they needed to be larger to sex, but I saw @MacZ 's reply earlier in the thread that they're 100% sexable at 4cm, so I wanted to confirm I wasn't misunderstanding
My LFS is getting a shipment of D maculatus from Brazil in a couple of weeks and they're marked as 4-6cm. Would they be 100% sexable at this size, and the way to sex them would be the length of the pelvic fins and colour sheen on the unpaired fins?
I once had tucano tetras as dithers in a tank with an Ivanacara adoketa pair. Pretty soon after the tank was set up I had to look for new, larger dithers. The tank had hardscape and plant cover so not all the tucanos were eaten, but the remaining ones were hiding 100% of the time, so it was as...
I usually would use metronidazole and praziquental as the basic prophylactic treatment for wild caught fish.
If you have access to levimasole/flubendazole/fenbendazole you can use that too but note that it doesn't kill the worms, only stuns them and causes the fish to expel them so this...
Mine have always bred inside flowerpots placed on their side to simulate caves. Some pairs breed in the smaller pots, some in the larger ones. Usually they stick to their preference once the first pot is chosen, but not always.
So either raising the temperature or moving the fish to the top tier of the rack worked. I raised the room temperature and moved 1 pair to the top tier, and that pair has finally successfully hatched fry. This was the 5th or 6th attempt for this pair.
I have another pair not in the top tier...
I'm sorry for your experience, but mine has been different. I have 8 fish formed into 4 pairs and purchased from 2 different retailers in different countries (5 from Hong Kong and 3 from Singapore). One of the pairs is formed between fish from different retailers. I understand that they all...
My big tanks are longer side to side than the small tanks with the same water height, so slightly more floor space. They're custom made to fit the space, so they don't follow standard US tank dimensions.
I can implement both #1 and #2 together, which I will do after I'm back from my trip. In...
Trying to troubleshoot my issues here. I'm thinking of implementing one or more of the following changes:
1) I can free up some of the larger tanks (20 gallons instead of the current 15 gallons) and move maybe 2 of the pairs there. The larger tanks are also placed in the upper tier of the...