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  1. Erik82

    Black patterns pelvin fins A. sp miua

    Normaly the ratio male female is OK in my fishroom. Thought I had the same problems with A. viejta (at temp 25-26 and pH 6.6 the ratio male-female was about 9-1. It could be I have lost a few females from the school of fry. Because one of my females died I raised the most of the fry in a...
  2. Erik82

    Black patterns pelvin fins A. sp miua

    Thx for your replay Mike. The temperature and pH were not that high in my opinion(25 degrees pH around 5,5-6 I guess) I also noticed more people are facing this issue(Germany and so). Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met Tapatalk
  3. Erik82

    Black patterns pelvin fins A. sp miua

    Hi All, Since a while I have a wild pair of miua. They are realy fantastic fish. For now I have about 40 little F1 fish :-) Me was told they were easy to sexe throught de pattern in the analfin. But it looks like to be harder then it looks like.It seems I have almost only young males and the...
  4. Erik82

    Unknown Apistogramma male

    Ok, thx for the identification!
  5. Erik82

    Sexing young A. sp abacaxis

    Thanks for your replay Mike. Some of the male shows the purple lips, some don't. It good to know that females don't have the spot patterns.
  6. Erik82

    Unknown Apistogramma male

    Hi All, for two weeks ago I orders 2 pair of A. mendizi. It turned out they are actualy A. paucisquamis. One of the males is definitly not a paucisquamis. I think it is a Agassizii. On the other hand it could be an gephyra? In the caudalfin there is a tipicial row of bright dots..
  7. Erik82

    Sexing young A. sp abacaxis

    Hi All, I have a very productive couple Apistogramma sp. abacaxis. There are around 140 young swimming in my tank. Whenn adult they are easy to sex, but is there a way to sex them wben they are stil small and young? For example with or without little spots in the coudalfin? Here a picture ofbthe...
  8. Erik82

    Difference male and female Copella nattereri

    Thanks for your answer Mike. I thought maby the shape of the analfin could explain the sex of the fish. Hopefully they will breed soon.
  9. Erik82

    Combining two Apistogramma species in one tank?

    What are the dimentions of your tank. The volume is not that interesting for apistogramma.
  10. Erik82

    Difference male and female Copella nattereri

    Hi all, Since a while I have a few Copella nattereri in my tank. I read the site of Tom C, but the only thing I can not find the difference between male and female. Especially when they are young. Adult fish the male is being larger, but what about smaler fish? Is there a way to separate the...
  11. Erik82

    Sexing Apistogramma sp. miua

    Hi Mike, In read that in a post of you before. Though I was not sure about the last picture. It turned out to be a female. Since yesterday she laid some eggs in a coconutshel
  12. Erik82

    Sexing Apistogramma sp. miua

    Hi All, since two weeks three wonderfull jong Apistogramma sp. miua are swimming around in one of my breedingtanks. To bad there where not more fish for sale. I ordered two pairs but recieved, as they said 1 male and two female. About one male and female I am quiet sure, the last one I 'am not...
  13. Erik82

    Apistogramma id

    I might think I know which female does not belong there. The first female swimms around with her fry. Well the fry try to... Almost all of the fry (at least 100+) bumping in the tank. It looks like they can not swimm. Something like that could be the result of the tankwater it's quality, but...
  14. Erik82

    Apistogramma id

    Hi Mike, The females are in my opinion different from because their body is different; first one is more and long ghen high. The other one is more highly boddied and shorter. Also the breeding pattern is different. The tall one got a black stripe on the flank, the small one or two black spots...
  15. Erik82

    Apistogramma id

    Hi All, I have two females and one male apistogramma sp. in a tank. My guess is two different females(Megaptera and piaroa) and I thought a male piaroa. I never seen a Megaptera male with a yellow cheek like this one, and I thought I saw all extended spines of the dorsalfin. Last week one of the...
  16. Erik82

    Apistogramma pioroa or megaptera

    OK, thanks for your replay. Here the male A. megaptera threatening..
  17. Erik82

    Apistogramma pioroa or megaptera

    And what about the three extended dorsalspines at the female Mike? Is that typicle for A. Megaptera?
  18. Erik82

    Apistogramma pioroa or megaptera

    Hi All, I was curious if some has an picture of a adult female A. megaptera. Does the female also has extended dorsal spines? When I look at the Datz catalog, i would say it could be A. brevis? Only i don't have ane pictures of that female too. Here below some pictures of the female and one of...
  19. Erik82

    Apistogramma pioroa or megaptera

    Well since a few days my A. megaptera female (with black spot on the flank) is garding her fry :-)
  20. Erik82

    Apistogramma pioroa or megaptera

    Mike and other, is there a difference between the female breeding dress? Now I got eggs from the fish, but I don't see any black spots on flank of the female.. In the past I had some A. sp breitbinden. That female had two black spots:
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