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!
My LFS had A.panduro (I bought 2 obvious pairs), but today they got some A. nijesseni in. Color wise, I thinking these are the best looking of all apistos....... but, how do I tell the difference between the two? I did not buy and of the nijesseni, but looking at what they had today, they both...
These were sold to me as Apistogramma "Diamond" I was assuming they were Apistogramma sp "diamente", (Apistogramma eremnopyge) but now that they have matured I am not so sure. I am not seeing the red and blue colors that are described for them. I know they are WC, but they were not able to...
I put a trio of A elizas in a 20 Long to breed them (broken into 2 distinct territories by flower pots). Well the first clutch became free swimming on Wed and the second today. As soon as the second clutch came outta the cave the fun started.
The females swim through the cloud of fry like...
After SEVERAL attempts I finally got free swimmers outta my elizas. One female has spawned 7 times and the other 4 times. They finally decided not to eat the eggs or the fry.
Both females spawned this time, 1 day apart. The first set is free swimming today so hopefully the second should...
A friend picked up a couple of A. eremnopyge / A. sp. Fresa / A. sp. Barbarossa / Strawberry Apistogramma whichever name you prefer. Anyways, he was looking for a reference to them and I can't find any of those names in Romer. Is the species that Romer refers to as A. sp. "Red Check" (I have...
OK, time to ask for some advice. I have a pair of wild-caught checkerboards that just don't want to show any signs of breeding activity. The only thing that is going on is the male showing the female how tough he is. I have had them for about 5 months now.
Romer says that they are never...
My Eliza spawned again today. Looks like quite a few eggs this time too. I have them in a 20L gal, PH 5.5 and EC ~92. I hope to grow them out this time (with mamma and daddy's help of course). With a little luck I might get some good photos too.
Are the free-swimming fry big enough for...
I bought 2 pair of A. Elizabethae on Tues. They came from water in the 7.0 range with medium hardness. Well my tap water is 6.6 and about 4 GH so I figured that was pretty close so that is what they are in.
I stuck both pair into a 10gal QT with this water, figuring I could slowly lower the...
I came home this afternoon and there is a nice clutch of eggs in one of my tanks. Looking at them closly though they are completely white and the female is not "guarding" over the cave like my other dwarfs do after they spawn. Leads me to think that maybe the eggs did not get fertilized, but I...
I have read about everything that I can about these guys and had about 4 spawns so far. All 4 (3 different females) times the females turn a lemon yellow (when brooding) just like apistos do. I have read many times that the female candidis do not do this. I am trying to find out if anyone...
I am running a AM 1000 reactor on the input side of my Magnum 350. Everyday about 1500-1600 the reactor get to the point that it is full of air and needs to be burped. This also corresponds with the time that the plants are pearling the heaviest. But at this point the CO2 is not desolving...
I have a 20 L set up with my T. candidi fry in it. The fry are a little over a month old and I have been feeding them routinly with BBS, golden pearls and decap BSEs. I have also started to raise the TDS and the PH in the tank slowly to the level of my tap water. Right now it is at 70 ppm and...
Woke up this morning and went out to check my 240 community tank. After about 2 min I realised there were eggs everywhere. My Bronchis splendis spawned all morning long.
Then this afternoon I noticed that my Taeniacara candidi pair that I had in a 20l breeding tank, where hanging out in the...
For the longest time I heard people talk about how difficult it is to breed Taenicara candidi. So I decided to try my hand. I bought 12 juv/unsexable fish thinking that I would definatly get at least 1 pair out of them. Well as it turns out I have 9 males remaining. The other 3 fell victim...
I have read all the posts and topics as far as both PH and TDS. I understand most of what y'all have said, but I still have two very big questions.
(1) The lowest I have seen any PH test kit is about 5.6. That is all well and good for most dwarf ACARAs but I am interested in breeding...