Renan Fameli
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- São Paulo - Brazil
Hi all,
This tank is on my desk at work, previously it was a tank for a single polypterus delhezi that I found dry on the floor.
The thank stayed without any fish with just about 5 pomacea bridgesi, for about 2 months, I had a external and an internal filter running with glass wool and Sera Siporax.
I measured the pH beffore putting the fishes and it was around 6.5, I assure my TPA water is with the same pH using orange juice to balance because my tap water is around 7.0~7.4.
The setup:
20 Galon tank
200 L/h external filter
100 L/h internal filter
50w Thermostat
6Kg of basalt rocks
6Kg of basalt gravel
I have Java Moss and a plant that I really don't remember the name, is an easy plant that I keep.
The Fauna:
Well, I'm from Brazil and I still haven't found a really good place to buy dwarf cichlids, but I found two specimens that I believe to be the follow:
- Apistogramma cacatuoides "Triple Red"
- Apistogramma cacatuoides "Orange Flash"
They look very healthy and they are probably already adults, the "Triple Red" is measuring about 2.5 inches and the "Orange Flash" about 2.7 inches.
The only problem is the length of the tank that don't really work well to avoid fights even with some burrows for them.
Just when I released then they started to fight very hard, but I saw that they were not really hurting themselves but the stress was apparently high.
Trough the night at home I started to think on putting them in tanks apart, but trought today there didn't fought much, almost everytime was just the "Triple Red" running after the "Orange Flash" tail.
I have a video that I made just when I released them and some photos of today too.
It would be nice if the specimens identity could be confirmed and any advice given to this tank will be appreciated.



* For scale
* Video coming soon
This tank is on my desk at work, previously it was a tank for a single polypterus delhezi that I found dry on the floor.
The thank stayed without any fish with just about 5 pomacea bridgesi, for about 2 months, I had a external and an internal filter running with glass wool and Sera Siporax.
I measured the pH beffore putting the fishes and it was around 6.5, I assure my TPA water is with the same pH using orange juice to balance because my tap water is around 7.0~7.4.
The setup:
20 Galon tank
200 L/h external filter
100 L/h internal filter
50w Thermostat
6Kg of basalt rocks
6Kg of basalt gravel
I have Java Moss and a plant that I really don't remember the name, is an easy plant that I keep.
The Fauna:
Well, I'm from Brazil and I still haven't found a really good place to buy dwarf cichlids, but I found two specimens that I believe to be the follow:
- Apistogramma cacatuoides "Triple Red"
- Apistogramma cacatuoides "Orange Flash"
They look very healthy and they are probably already adults, the "Triple Red" is measuring about 2.5 inches and the "Orange Flash" about 2.7 inches.
The only problem is the length of the tank that don't really work well to avoid fights even with some burrows for them.
Just when I released then they started to fight very hard, but I saw that they were not really hurting themselves but the stress was apparently high.
Trough the night at home I started to think on putting them in tanks apart, but trought today there didn't fought much, almost everytime was just the "Triple Red" running after the "Orange Flash" tail.
I have a video that I made just when I released them and some photos of today too.
It would be nice if the specimens identity could be confirmed and any advice given to this tank will be appreciated.



* For scale
* Video coming soon
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