Hello guest! Are you an Apistogramma enthusiast? If so we invite you to join our community and see what it has to offer. Our site is specifically designed for you and it's a great place for Apisto enthusiasts to meet online. Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your fish and tanks and have a great time with other Apisto enthusiasts. Sign up today!
It's been awhile and tanks have been moved around a bit... but seeing this same F1 female spawn over and over again is always as fascinating:
I'm getting mostly males though... any idea what I can do to get more females?
pH is 5.2, perhaps getting it a bit higher can help? Or would that be...
Not really sure when this happened but the breeding apparently went very well.
The male is a really good father and keeps the fry constantly (approx. 50 young ones)
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Here's a serie of shots from this afternoon.
Now it's getting really serious in that coconut, and madam is wearing her golden dorsal fin, looking good!
I could swear that at some point I saw the male's eyeballs pop out from excitement ;)
Update with a few pics from last tuesday, with more colours than on the first series.
Very interesting behavior with these two, they seem quite bonded and have started digging out the sand that I piled up under one of the coconuts. Looks like there's some courtship going on and the female's...
Thanks Ted, I'll let them a few more days to color up and try to get a profile pic with more details of the fins.
About the yellow colouring on the belly, could that rule out nigeria green vs a nigeria yellow form?
Great website you have btw, very interesting.
Hi,
I just received a couple of wild P. Taeniatus sold as 'nigeria green' form. This is my first west african fish. Took a few shots upon arrival, so they are pretty stressed out and still very pale from transportation, but maybe someone could give an opinion on the ID? What bothers me is the...
After discussing the species again with breeders, it apears that they don't agree in saying it's an A. sp. Tefe.
So I'm back to ID'ing...
They do agree that the wavy lines on the flanks are specific to that species but according to them, there are other factors that don't fit in:
- the caudal...
Hello,
I'm looking for info on the species Apistogramma angayuara but can't seem to find anyone maintaining/breeding it.
Is this species actually available through importers/hobbyists?
Any interesting websites with photos/breeding reports regarding this species?
Thanks
Thanks for the good news!
They are adult (a year and a half, give or take) and have always stayed in couple, no spawn to their record yet...
I got them last sunday. No tankmates except a few little snails that invited themselves.
As for the tank itself, it's a 54 liter (approx. 14 gallon)...
All this hybriding talk between A. agassizii and A. sp. tefe is getting me a bit paranoid :)
I noticed the female has what seems to be a slight deformity on the dorsal fin, around the 3rd or 4th spike (see pics from the first post + extra close-up below).
Though the original owner seemed...
Hi,
Already posted these pics as a contribution to another thread but probably better to post here...
What is your guess on this F1 couple?
The male was still a bit stressed on the first serie of shots so I added a few more at the end.
Interesting thread!
Here are a few pics of the couple I maintain, given last week-end by a friend.
These are a offspring from a wild couple (F1).
They have been ID'd but before I give you the species name (according to previous owner) I would like to have a second opinion from you or Mike:
If the goal is to constatly have fry to watch, 1 male / 2 females is enough.
I maintain 1 male apisto cacatuoides with 2 females in a 360L (~100 gallon) community tank and always have one or both females cruising around their territory with their fry.
If parameters are good and stable, and the...
I have a pair of wild eremnopyge, unfortunately 2 males...
Looking to find some females to breed in a dedicated tank.
(sorry for algae in pics... i'm working on it...)