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frodejo
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Hi.
I have a trio of wild caught Apistogramma mendezi that I have in a 75-gallon (250 litres) tank, where the water parameters are pH=5, gH=1-2 and kH=0-1. The temperature is 26-27 degrees Celsius (is that about 80 degrees Fahrenheit?). I do 25-30% water changes every week with cold water, which my fish love.
I got my first mendezi spawn 3 weeks ago, but the eggs disappeared. This was this female’s first spawn. Some days ago the same female spawned again, and since this species is very hard to find here I decided to hatch the eggs artificially. I put them in a 3-gallon tank with an air stone and methylene-blue in water from the parents’ tank. The egg turned one by one white, and I couldn’t see any fungus (which doesn’t mean that it’s not there, of course). My question is: could one of the fish be infertile? Is that common in Apistogramma?
Frode
I have a trio of wild caught Apistogramma mendezi that I have in a 75-gallon (250 litres) tank, where the water parameters are pH=5, gH=1-2 and kH=0-1. The temperature is 26-27 degrees Celsius (is that about 80 degrees Fahrenheit?). I do 25-30% water changes every week with cold water, which my fish love.
I got my first mendezi spawn 3 weeks ago, but the eggs disappeared. This was this female’s first spawn. Some days ago the same female spawned again, and since this species is very hard to find here I decided to hatch the eggs artificially. I put them in a 3-gallon tank with an air stone and methylene-blue in water from the parents’ tank. The egg turned one by one white, and I couldn’t see any fungus (which doesn’t mean that it’s not there, of course). My question is: could one of the fish be infertile? Is that common in Apistogramma?
Frode